In a career that has spanned almost 30 years, Mitsuko Uchida (born 1948) has earned her title as one of the greatest classical pianists of the 20th century. She is most readily associated with her ability and recordings of Mozart's piano works and is a...

Ian Bostridge and Mitsuko Uchida * "DIE SCHÃNE MÃLLERIN" Texts and translations. EMI Classics 5 57827 2 Among the numerous recordings of Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin is a previous one by tenor Ian Bostridge, made in 1995 with pianist Graham Johnson, as...

Mitsuko Uchida and Mark Steinberg at Snape Maltings Any opportunity to hear Mitsuko Uchida playing Mozart is one to savour and the programme of five Sonatas for Piano and Violin in her Aldeburgh Festival recital with Mark Steinberg on 25 June promised a...

The word that comes to mind when watching the white-maned, 79-year-old conductor Colin Davis is _ youthful.One has only to close one's eyes to hear that this British musician with more than a half century of experience has reached the apex of his art _...

“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. To a 10-year-old aspiring Rubinstein, these instructions made sense—at least as they helped me produce the different “atmospheres” (as my teacher put it) of Mozart’s mischievous piano sonatas and Chopin’s moody...