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Beethoven - Diabelli Variations

Decca Classics is proud to release Mitsuko Uchida’s new recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Among the most celebrated living interpreters of the music of the Classical period, Uchida captures on disc her interpretation of one of the greatest works in the piano repertoire.

Uchida’s live performances of the Diabelli Variations have been praised as “mesmerizing” by The Guardian, “dazzling” by The Arts Desk and “compelling to the end” by the New York Times. The new recording of the work was made at Snape Maltings in Suffolk, a concert hall with which Uchida feels a strong affinity.

Mitsuko Uchida, DBE, has recorded exclusively on Decca Classics and Philips across four decades. Her acclaimed discography, which includes the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas, has earned her two Grammy Awards, a Gramophone Award and two BBC Music Magazine Awards. She is regarded as a peerless interpreter of the music of the First and Second Viennese Schools.

Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations stand alongside Bach’s Goldberg Variations as the pinnacle of the variation form. In 1819, the dilettante composer and publisher Antonio Diabelli commissioned around 50 of the leading composers in Vienna (including Franz Schubert) to compose variations on a theme he had written. Among them, Beethoven was at first dismayed by the quality of the theme (describing it as a “cobbler’s patch”) and scathing of such collaborative models of work. Yet, working intermittently on the set for six years, Beethoven was able to transform the mundane theme into one of the most sublime pieces of piano music ever written.

Mitsuko Uchida’s Beethoven – Diabelli Variations is out now on Decca Classics.

Mitsuko Uchida:

Mozart Piano Concertos #17 K453 & #25 K503

The Cleveland Orchestra and Mitsuko Uchida announce the release date of their latest Decca recording project: Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 17 (K453) and 25 (K503), which were recorded live at Severance Hall in February 2016. On October 28, 2016 the recording will be available in the United States and internationally. "With K453 in G major Mozart opens a new horizon in his piano concertos," says pianist Mitsuko Uchida, "With this lyrical and poignant piece, he began using the woodwinds as solo instruments, almost equal to the piano. This new inspiration reaches its peak with K503 in C major, the grandest of all the concerti, majestic and mysterious. The often asked question which piano concerto of Mozart was my favourite, I have to answer ‘The one I am playing today.' But these two come pretty much at the top."

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SYND: Classical 24, CBC
Direct: SiriusXM, MOOD
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Wash DC, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland, Dallas, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Portland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Baltimore, Austin, Hartford CT., Honolulu, KS(Network), Canada
Online: AccuRadio

Mitsuko Uchida:

Mozart Piano Concertos

"Drawing sharper-than-usual contrasts between movements, the pianist, who also conducted, added narrative breadth to the concertos, thereby giving the works even more to say than usual." - The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

"When you have such a superior Mozart pianist directing Mozart concertos from the Steinway, and doing so with such ease and infectious pleasure in making music … who wants (or needs) a separate conductor?" – The Chicago Tribune

Internationally acclaimed pianist Mitsuko Uchida releases another installment in her much-admired and Grammy® Award-winning Mozart piano concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra, available now on Decca. Recorded live, as with the past three albums in the series, during performances in Cleveland's Severance Hall, this new album combines the B flat major, No 18, K456 and the F major, No 19, K459. These two pieces were part of the great series of piano concertos that Mozart wrote in Vienna in the mid-1780s.

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SYND: PRI/Classical 24, CBC
Direct: SiriusXM, Music Choice, Spafax
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Houston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Cleveland, St. Louis, Portland, Denver, Austin, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Baltimore, Louisville, Honolulu, Canada
Online: Taintradio

Mitsuko Uchida:

Schumann

or her latest Decca album, Dame Mitsuko Uchida places Schumann's turbulent Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 22 in company with his romantic Waldszenen ("Forest Scenes") Op. 82, begun in the revolutionary year of 1848, and the Gesänge der Frühe ("Songs of Dawn") Op. 133, transcendent creations written shortly before his confinement in a mental asylum. Dame Mitsuko's empathic understanding of the contrasting character and moods of each work and ability to portray them in sound underline her status among the greatest pianists of our time.

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SYND: PRI/Classical 24, CBC
Direct: SiriusXM, Galaxy, Music Choice
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Houston, St. Louis, Denver, Portland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Buffalo NY, Tampa, Canada
Online: Taintradio, RadioIO, WGOE