Piano Concertos (Nos 20 & 27)

"[Uchida is] subtle and highly polished, never drawing attention to her virtuosity and erring on the side of understatement....Despite the profound intimacy with which she imbues both concertos, there is passion too when required...I cannot recall hearing these works performed with this degree of intimacy and subtlety."
(International Record Review)

"These performances are poised and in no way ostentatious. There is just enough restraint at the opening of the D minor, and certainly no lack of tension - surely the most vital element. These are definitely performances to live with, free from exaggeration or interpretative quirks and more deeply rewarding on each listening. This is an outstanding CD by one of the greatest Mozart players of our time, beautifully recorded.
(Recording of the Month MusicWeb Oct 2011)

"Nothing could be more tenderly touching than No 27's slow movement...the Cleveland Orchestra (directed from the keyboard) brood and explode on cue."
(The Times)

"Decades after she first recorded these concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra, Uchida is recording them again, this time with the Cleveland Orchestra. All the things that made the first recording treasurable are there: the pearly, immaculate tone, the needlepoint precision, the graceful phrasing. The orchestra, too, is on terrific form."
(The Daily Telegraph)

"where others opt for Beethovenian struggle [in K466], she conveys, to a degree unmatched in my experience, a sense of sorrow, an almost harrowing sadness, underlining the tragedy of the work without vitiating its drama. This she does with a probing subtlety that defies concise description and sets this interpretation apart from any other known to me."
(Five Stars BBC Music)