On Sunday afternoon, March 24, Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida, currently Artist in Residence at Cal Performances, performed two Mozart Piano Concertos at Zellerbach Hall. The concertos were No. 17 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Schoenberg wrote “Six Little Piano pieces,” his Opus 19, he was he was in his mid 30s, taking deep compositional breaths, ...

Opinion about Mitsuko Uchida’s Mozart playing is likely to remain divided among piano connoisseurs, but the concert public as a whole continues to adore her. The latest of the pianist’s more or less ...

It is tempting to trivialize Mozart—to take the quality of his music on faith because it’s Mozart. His piano concertos are particularly vulnerable to this approach, especially if the listener forgets ...

CLEVELAND -- One might assume, from looking at the Cleveland Orchestra's tantalizing musical menu this weekend, that Mitsuko Uchida is eager for attention. After all, the pianist is center stage at ...

Recording engineers will probably have to discard much of what they heard Thursday night at Severance Hall. The rest of us, meanwhile, will treasure it. Those who weren't contributing to the baffling ...

Nobody planned it that way, but Thursday brought a happy confluence of related events. On the very day that the classical music world was celebrating the 255th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, Mitsuko ...

When it comes to pianist Mitsuko Uchida, it’s fair to question her outfits, her conducting, even the frequency of her appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra. Her Mozart, though, is beyond dispute.

Well before the Chicago Symphony Orchestra took up Pierre Boulez’s ideas about ridding symphony concerts of their hidebound habits, Mitsuko Uchida was doing something similar at her annual appearances ...

When Schoenberg wrote “Six Little Piano pieces,” his Opus 19, he was he was in his mid 30s, taking deep compositional breaths, smelling the roses scenting a new air that seemed to waft over Vienna in ...