Reviews In June 1996 Next, pianist mitsuko uchida had never ever recorded anything vaguely resemblingtwentiethcentury music before - we only know that she is an outstanding http://web.singnet.com.sg/~lionelc/jun96.htm
Extractions: American Piano Classics Leroy Anderson - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C major George Gershwin - Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Grand Tarantelle Euday Bowman - 12 th Street Rag Scott Joplin - The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag Morton Gould - Interplay (American Concertette for Piano and Orchestra) Stewart Goodyear / William Tritt / Cincinnati Pops Orchestra / Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80112) Leroy Anderson is probably most famous for his symphonic lollipops like Sleigh Ride Blue Tango and The Typewriter . In this recording, which features the world premiere recording of his only piano concerto, we are treated to another side of this famous American composer. Ambitious and big-scale, the concerto is brisk, charming and very easy to listen to. The tunes evoke images of the American frontier and the work is generally straightforward. Slow, touching and poignant is the second movement which basks initially in nostalgia and then leads to a more catchy and upbeat rhythm. The last movement is very American and folksy, comfortable and unthreatening. Goodyear, who plays this, is competent but unassuming in his approach. Some might find him a little too reticent and inconspicuous. Nevertheless, this is a worthwhile addition to a collection, especially since it's the only version around. Gershwin's great Second Rhapsody, which has been all but overshadowed by its predecessor, is flawed in parts but curiously satisfying. It is less jazzy than the Rhapsody in Blue but is often more thought-provoking and is more sensuously orchestrated. The melodies are more memorable and there is somehow more ambience, more of that mysterious Gershwin magic. Apparently, Gershwin was quite pleased with the results himself, calling it the best thing he had written in many respects, such as orchestration and form. Again, I find Goodyear a little too recessed although that is probably good for this work.
Harrison/Parrott - Projects And Consultancy Sonata in A, D959 Fri 14 March 2003 RFH 7.30pm mitsuko uchida Schoenberg Drei pmQEH Preconcert Event Gerard McBurney discusses Prokofiev as pianist Weds 9 http://www.harrisonparrott.com/consultancy.asp?pg=10
InternetEd Reviews: Mozart- Piano Concerto Nos. 20/21 20 and 21. Performed by the brilliant Japanese pianist, mitsuko uchida alongwith the English Chamber Orchestra, the music is right on the mark. http://www.interneted.com/Reviewpages/mozartpianoconcertos20&21.htm
Extractions: 6. Ct. Pno. No. 21 in C, KV 467: III. Allegro vivace assai Buy It! This record contains two of Mozart's much-respected concertos, Nos. 20 and . Performed by the brilliant Japanese pianist, Mitsuko Uchida along with the English Chamber Orchestra , the music is right on the mark. The album's success also owes much gratitude to the conductor, Jeffrey Tate who has collaborated with Uchida numerous timesfor presenting the necessary unity and focus that makes these Mozart compositions shine. It should be noted that Mitsuko Uchida's playing is far above average, glowing with a human warmth that shows just how powerful the piano should sound, but rarely does. Summary : Clean and clearly representative of Mozart's great works
June 20, 2001 Press Release On Sunday, July 22, pianist mitsuko uchida returns to Caramoor toperform two sonatas (No. 6 in EFlat Major and No. 10 in A Major http://www.caramoor.org/news/press/01jun20a.html
Extractions: K atonah, New York.........................................On Saturday evening, July 21, Caramoor will present Verdi's Otello. It promises to be one of the most stunning performances of this masterpiece. Tenor Frank Porretta , whose voice Will Crutchfield describes as "absolutely remarkable," will sing the difficult title role. Says Crutchfield, Caramoor's Director of Opera, "Very, very few tenors can get through this and still sing well. When I first heard Porretta last year in Virginia, he sang Calef [ Turandot ] and nailed every single high note. He made the audience go completely crazy." The Washington Post praised Mr. Porretta for "gorgeous, over-the-top singing." Soprano Indra Thomas will sing the role of Desdemona. She is another artist to watch. The 1998 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Ms. Thomas made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the spring of 1999 as the Priestess in Verdi's Aida.
Music on the international stage. pianist uchida mitsuko is a regular on theEuropean concert circuit. Iwaki Hiroyuki, the senior conductor http://www.jinjapan.org/today/culture/culture11.html
Extractions: There are nine full-time orchestras in Tokyo, all of which give regular performances. The programs span the baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary periodsfrom the music of Bach to the symphonies of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Mahler, and Debussy and Ravel's works for orchestra, as well as ballet and opera. Japanese orchestras also give overseas performances of recent works by contemporary Japanese composers. In the past musical activity tended to be concentrated in Tokyo, but these days it extends nationwide. Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo, and other major cities now have full-time orchestras, and a variety of musical festivals are held throughout the country. Moreover, the number of foreign performers visiting Japan continues to rise each year. In addition to pieces based on the standard forms and styles of Western classical music, Japanese composers write a number of works for Japanese instruments or for a combination of Japanese and Western instruments. Ensembles consisting only of Japanese instruments perform Japanese contemporary music to audiences in and outside Japan. The late Takemitsu Toru, one of Japan's most representative composers, wrote not only purely orchestral works like
Western Classical Music In Japan musicians have gone abroad to study, and some, such as the conductor Ozawa Seiji,the violinist Goto Midori and the pianist uchida mitsuko, have established http://www.jinjapan.org/access/music/classic.html
Extractions: Tokyo Opera City Arts Co.,Ltd. By the early twentieth century there were connoisseurs of Western classical music in sufficient numbers to attract the attention of European performers, some of whom came to Japan to give recitals or mount concert tours. In 1926 the New Symphony Orchestra was formed and in 1927 regular performances began. In 1951 the orchestra was renamed the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Today, it is sponsored by the NHK Broadcasting Corporation and is Japan's leading orchestra. Since 1950 the Japan Contemporary Music Association has held an annual festival to promote composition. Notable postwar composers include Dan Ikuma, who wrote a charming opera, Yuzuru Evening Cranes ), based on a Japanese folk tale, and Mayuzumi Toshiro, who composed symphonic pieces inspired by esoteric Buddhism. Takemitsu Toru, a composer of respected avant-garde pieces, has also written music for the cinema and is known worldwide. Many Japanese musicians have gone abroad to study, and some, such as the conductor Ozawa Seiji, the violinist Goto Midori and the pianist Uchida Mitsuko, have established enduring international reputations.
Festival International De Lanaudière 2001 The superb pianist mitsuko uchida returns to Lanaudière and pursues her odysseythroughout Schubert's poetic universe. mitsuko uchida. mitsuko uchida, piano http://www.lanaudiere.org/en/edition_2001/20juillet.html
Festival International De Lanaudière 1999 mitsuko uchida. One of the true wonders of the music world, pianist mitsuko uchida,sharing the poetry of Schubert's intimate world. mitsuko uchida, piano. http://www.lanaudiere.org/en/edition_99/23juillet.html
Sorabji.com com, Now playing on sorabjiRadio (click to listen) mitsuko uchida Mozart - Piano laughedabout this while practicing tonight, imagining a pianist reaching up http://www.sorabji.com/
Extractions: Leslie Howard - Carl Maria von Weber - Konzerstück in F minor (Op 7) - Più mosso - Presto gioioso March 12, 2003 - 1:41 AM One of my infinitely generous friends recently gave me all his darkroom equipment, and I've been developing pictures in my kitchen for the last several nights. I've only gone as far as developing from negatives. I have not successfully spooled film onto a reel and developed actual negatives. In fact, for as much time as I've spent on it so far I don't really know much. This afternoon, though, I was walking around outside and I found a negative strip that someone had discarded. Naturally I picked it up and took it home and developed it. The strip had been run over by cars and stepped on, but it looked like at least one shot was salvageable: I realize once in a while that I take too many pictures. Well, for the purpose of taking pictures you can never, in my opinion, take too many pictures. But for the purposes of experiencing whatever it is in front of you, it is easy to go overboard with documenting it in a picture. I reach the point where I am not looking at things, I am only taking pictures of them.
Leila Josefowicz orchestra, For the End of Time and Americana with pianist John Novacek Thomas Hampson,Jaime Laredo, Sylvia McNair, Andras Schiff, mitsuko uchida and André http://www.cramermarderartists.com/josefowicz.htm
Extractions: pianist Jean-Philippe Collard pianist ... pianist Leila Josefowicz violinist Click on each topic or scroll down to see complete information CMA Home Page Photos Biography Recor ... ings Biography May 2002 At the age of 24, Leila Josefowicz has won the hearts of audiences around the world with her honest, fresh approach to the repertoire and her dynamic virtuosity. No stranger to television, Ms. Josefowicz has appeared on numerous national broadcasts such as The Tonight Show Evening at Pops and Live from Lincoln Center prize. Subsequent releases include Bohemian Rhapsodies , a collection of virtuosic violin works with orchestra, For the End of Time and Americana with pianist John Novacek, and the Mendelssohn, Glazunov and Prokofiev concertos with the Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit conducting. A live recording of her performance of the Adams Violin Concerto, with John Adams conducting, has recently been released on the new BBC label. Ms. Josefowicz is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Jaime Laredo and Jascha Brodsky. In addition to her solo work, she studied chamber music at Curtis with Felix Galimir and participated at several Marlboro Music Festivals. In recent seasons she has collaborated with artists such as Martha Argerich, Thomas Hampson, Jaime Laredo, Sylvia McNair, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida and André Watts.
Dr. Hans Werner Kûthen, A Worldy Known Beethoven Specialist, Redoute with the same success and frenetic applause, like mitsuko uchida has gathered arare, nonetheless characteristic attitude of a young pianist who wants http://aclassic.free.fr/kuthen.htm
Extractions: During the same evening, she showed herself as a person, who is both open to answer questions and in the meantime inquisitive to get informations and knowledge from the side of research. Her perceptions are always based on the flame of her interest in the composer's text. She offers problematic passages, puts questions on crucial measures in a sonata, but is open to answers; that means: Here you can meet a pianist who does not avoid thinking on music (like Alfred Brendel likes to do). After all, she is able to realize with breathtaking facility and ease what the composers intended. Here we are amidst the core of musical art: by her reflected artistry. Muza's recordings, some of them well known to me, reflect the intensity and originality of her interpretations. Her aptness and dexterity of teaching as music professor at Vilnius is, no doubt, a rare, nonetheless characteristic attitude of a young pianist who wants to devote her art to pupils, introducing them to an approved musical understanding.
Cleveland.com: The Plain Dealer Sunday, February 02, 2003. » pianist uchida enjoys dual role but doesn't wantto conduct full time New York The sight and sound of mitsuko uchida with the http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/don_rosenberg/
Classical Music CDs G 01/91 no. 1 no. 2. uchida, mitsuko (b.1948, Tokyo). 01/92. WATTS, André (b.1946,Nuremberg). 01/93. WEISSENBERG, Alexis (French pianist, b.1929, Sofia). 01/94. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/art/musi/cd/cdmusg.shtml
Extractions: G Composer, performer, group Title of composition(s) or CD CD no. GABRIELI, Giovanni (c. 1553/6-1612, Italy) The antiphonal music of Gabrieli for brass ensemble and organ GABRIELI Motets GABRIELI Music for San Rocco, 1608 includes In ecclesiis a 14; Sonata No. 19 a 15; Domine Deus meus a 6; Timor at tremor a 6; Jubilate Deo a 10; Sonata No. 18 a 14; Sonata No. 20 a 22; Magnificat a 33 GALLO, Domenico (1680-1762, Italy) Sonata no. 12 in E major (violin and piano) attrib. Pergolesi GALUPPI, Baldassare (1706-1785, Italy) Sonata no. 5 in C 01/61 no. 1 GARDEN, Steve, see: DIFFERENT TRACKS GAVIN, Nigel, see: DIFFERENT TRACKS GAZZANIGA, Giuseppe (1743-1818, Italy) Don Giovanni, Opera excerpts GEMINIANI, Francesco (1680-1762, Italy) 12 Concerti grossi GEMINIANI Sonata in A major, op. 4 no. 10 (violin and piano) GERRARD, Graeme (b. 1953, Australia) Strings of Token Strings:
Kuenstlerliste Von Konzertbilder.de Translate this page November 2001. uchida mitsuko (Klavier), Philharmonie Köln, 18. März 2001. März2000. Vlader Stefan (pianist), Philharmonie Köln, 23. November 2001. http://www.konzert-bilder.de/Kuenstlerliste/U-Z-Seite.htm
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Published 12/06/2002 02 12 June 2002 TESSA JOWELL HONOURS WORLD FAMOUS pianist Culture Secretary TessaJowell today presented an honorary CBE to renowned pianist mitsuko uchida. http://www.gnn.gov.uk/gnn/national.nsf/HE/C78E6A1A28E4A12380256BD7002B969D?opend
Newsday.com - Carnegie Hall 2003 pianist to be announced Tickets $32. Friday, May 2, 2003 at 800 PMWeill Recital Hall mitsuko uchida FRIENDS mitsuko uchida, Piano. http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-carnegiesked2002.story
GoMemphis: Music Philips (470 2652). This is mitsuko uchida's sixth recording in her series devotedto Franz Schubert's piano sonatas. uchida is a pianist of astonishing http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/music/article/0,1426,MCA_505_1623522,00.html
Amsterdam Japanese pianist mitsuko uchida returns to the Concertgebouw after her sabbaticalyear with a recital programme which bridges three musical styles. http://www.whatsontheplanet.com/wow/ptnr/bmi/page.jsp?fx=location&dpid=627
Royal Festival Hall mitsuko uchida, A recital of music by three composers with whom uchida identifiesdeeply Schubert An allRussian programme from this acclaimed Swedish pianist. http://www.rfh.org.uk/main/series/35.html?section=classical&file=index
Cleveland.com: The Plain Dealer pianist uchida enjoys dual role but doesn't want to conduct full time New YorkThe sight and sound of mitsuko uchida with the Cleveland Orchestra is hardly http://cleveland.com/artsandevents/plaindealer/index.ssf
