Mitsuko Uchida | Classical review

St George's, BristolThese days Mitsuko Uchida tends to give her London recitals in the Royal Festival Hall. That ensures that a bigger audience will be able to hear a pianist who, since she took British citizenship, can be legitimately regarded as a national treasure, but does little for the immediacy, let alone intimacy, of the occasion. In the perfectly scaled space of a concert hall like St George's in Bristol, though, Uchida's playing becomes even more compelling and directly communicative, ...

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