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Music : Schubert: Piano Sonata D. 960/3 Klavierstücke D. 946In association with Amazon.comfrom: Philips  Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028945657226 Label: Philips Manufacturer: Philips Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Philips Release Date: August 11, 1998 Studio: Philips Sales Rank: 122761 MPN: 456572 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: This is a marvelous musical coupling: Schubert's overwhelmingly moving last Piano Sonata and the visionary set of pieces written a few months earlier. There are several outstanding performances of the Sonata currently available, including those of Schnabel, Lupu, and Curzon. For the Piano Pieces, the only performance of comparable stature in the current catalogs seems to be one by Kyoko Tabe (Denon), which has the same Sonata for coupling. Neither pianist is very heart-on-sleeve in any of this music, so if you want more overtly romantic Schubert, look elsewhere. But both Uchida and Tabe give us profoundly moving interpretations of all this music, each on such a high level that it's impossible to make a choice between them. I'd buy 'em both. --Leslie Gerber Average Rating:
 Rating:  - listen with your heartI've listened to Schubert's sonata D 960 (on recordings) played by Schnabel, Brendel, Richter and Tabe; none comes remotely close to the lyricism that Uchida evokes with her overt feminine interpretaion. The first movement especially, it is as if the music is sung from the artist's soul. While many audiences seem to prefer the slow version played by Richter, to me, overly exaggerated stretches in the timing of movement one seems out of character with the rest of the piece. It doesn't ... Read More Rating: - Subtle and heartfelt.Mitsuko Uchida's interpretation of the last sonata is very striking and individual. The music becomes elemental, almost approaching sounds one might hear in nature, such as the soughing of trees, or the swell of the sea - this organic cohesion is clearly very much intended, and for me suggested a vision of Schubert's music as an exploration of certain emotional states, the piano becoming a source of effects designed to conjure these emotions. * There seems to be some controversy over the ... Read More Rating: - Not for every tasteThe mixed reviews of this album reflect how strongly Uchida personalizes this music. If you like what she does: Wow! And if not, it will leave you cold. I've owned this CD for 4 months and keep coming back to it after listening to other interpretations ranging from Brendel's powerful but rather impersonal one to Horowitz's quirky but unforgettable effort. Traditional Japanese music uses silence as much as sound to express its meaning and, in the first two movements of D. 960, Uchida ... Read More Rating: - Honesty, conviction, personality and poetry!At last from the East a new star has arisen: Uchida owns all the demanded requisites to triumph in this difficult career. She has a magnificent color sense and reminds me to Guiomar Novaes in this aspect, besides she has a very clean phrasing with an outstanding cantabile line that reminds us to Edwin Fisher and also a superior technique of the highest caliber. Even she is still in his early ages, I think her future is simply unlimited: somehow she has filled a sensible emptiness concerning with the raising ... Read More Rating: - Caresses in the darkSo large an impact did Uchida make with her Mozart interpretations that I've resisted thinking of her in any other context. [I went to see her play Beethoven in New York City but I was too spellbound by the aura to pay much attention to the music.] But from its first notes, this recording of Schubert's final masterpiece had me holding my breath. It's the most emotionally intimate performance in *any* genre of music that I've ever heard. [The soulful portrait of the artist on the cover is an excellent suggestion ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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