The pianist’s clarity and dexterity brings humour and insights to Beethoven’s contradictory colossus of a work It has taken until now for Mitsuko Uchida to lay down a recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two imposing sets of variations — Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Beethoven’s Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz ...

Mitsuko Uchida – an elegant, deeply musical interpreter who strikes an inspired balance of head and heart in everything she plays." - Chicago Tribune Mitsuko Uchida (born December 20, 1948) is a ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. But sometimes there does still exist a healthy market for the solo recital, as was proved by the sold-out ...