Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox
Successive days brought piano sonatas and contemporary music to the Royal Festival Hall
Humour is in short supply, but the Japanese pianist’s profound expressiveness is rewarding
The pianist’s recital offered what seemed to be a glimpse into Schubert’s psyche
The pianist played a demanding programme at London’s Royal Festival Hall
Mitsuko Uchida’s virtues marry the range of colours on offer from a concert grand with a classical purity
Standing in for the unwell Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist gave a performance that had the audience rapt
Competitions remain popular — but do they produce future stars?
A concert that revealed contrasting sides of the mezzo-soprano
The Philharmonia’s City of Light season continued with an evening of radiant performances
The pianist’s musical explorations continued with dramatic recitals of Schubert and Beethoven
The pianist performed Messiaen’s ‘Quatuor pour la fin du temps’ with members of the Berlin Phil
Colin Davis’s memory was honourably served by Mitsuko Uchida’s playing of Mozart
A lonely champion of Schoenberg’s work draws a full house for a collection of musical ‘problem children’
Album’s release coincides with pianist’s tour of Britain, Europe and the US with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida’s third disc as soloist/director with the Cleveland Orchestra is every bit as satisfying as its predecessors
The idea behind period performance has always seemed quite odd, and in a way touchingly romantic, and not really historical at all
The concert pianist - who left Japan aged just 12 and now feels ‘very European’ - tells Andrew Clark about the Japanese taste for both simplicity and vulgarity
Mariss Jansons showed how a standard programme of German classics can be special
International Edition