“It’s not enough to play the piano – it takes a lifetime to understand music.” These are the words of world-famous pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who although she has been pursuing her career for more than 40 years still always takes to the stage with incredible vitality. As she put it: “My back and shoulders get tired, but my mind and fingers, never.” Uchida fascinates her audience and the profession with her purity of touch and nuanced phrasing, while critics are universal in their enthusiasm for how she creates a balance between perfect precision and spontaneity. The pianist enjoys close ties with the world’s finest orchestras and concert venues; she is resident artist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonics, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozart Week, and the Lucerne Festival, while Carnegie Hall dedicated an entire series to her with the title Mitsuko Uchida: Vienna Revisited. Mitsuko Uchida, who recently gave an enormously popular recital together with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožena at the Liszt Academy, this time appears in front of her Hungarian audience with a special solo evening: three extraordinary sonatas from the pen of Schubert.
Program:
- Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958
- Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D. 664
- Intermission
- Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894
