I am a great admirer of Japanese pianist, Mitsuko Uchida. Not just her exquisite touch, and sensitivity to the score, but also her ability to bring intimacy even to the biggest performance spaces – as she did in her concert at the Royal Festival Hall on 7 March, part of the Southbank Centre’s excellent International Piano Series.
Read my review of her magical performance of Bach, Schoenberg and Schumann here
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Lovely review, thanks. Late Schumann is very difficult to do successfully, I think. It can sound rather confused, unfocused and messy. But I would expect nothing less than perfection from Uchida. It must’ve been grand.
Yes it was a good ‘un. And she brought coherence to the Schumann by connecting the two sets of pieces to the Schoenberg (the Sonata less so…)