Gramophone Magazine, Editor’s Choice - December 2009

Widely regarded as one of the foremost Mozart interpreters of our time: Mitsuko Uchida returns, conducting the orchestra herself from the piano, with live performances of two of Mozart’s most popular concertos.

“…we still had the thrill of Uchida, embodying Mozart’s recollections of joy and sorrow with dancing subtlety and love” The Times, London

“Miss Uchida played gracefully and with the flair listeners have come to expect from her….She endows the solo line with a rightness and an inevitability, yet there is originality in the way she shapes every phrase, and remarkable subtlety in her coloration” New York Times

“Uchida’s pellucid, subtly varied tone (no one makes the piano sing more beautifully) and quicksilver response to changes of mood and harmonic colour give unalloyed delight” The Telegraph, London, on Mitsuko Uchida’s previous disc of Mozart Piano Concerti