
Early in her international career, Mitsuko Uchida gained renown for playing Mozart, garnering acclaim for her complete recorded cycles of the composer’s concertos and sonatas
My colleague Jed Distler found some of Mitsuko Uchida’s cloying mannerisms rather distracting and artificial in this release of Schubert piano works (type Q5040 in
As with her earlier Schubert volumes, Mitsuko Uchida reveals the astonishing degree to which she can manipulate the three pianistic “Ts”, namely timbre, touch, and
As with her previous Schubert releases, Mitsuko Uchida once again proves herself a consummate craftsperson who masters Schubert’s ambling, unpressured domain with the utmost determination
Mitsuko Uchida’s Schubert has had its impressive moments, but the D major Sonata poses interpretive challenges that, despite several personal touches, aren’t met with the