{"id":3088,"date":"2011-02-19T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2016-08-17T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T19:54:16","slug":"mitsuko-uchida-wins-her-first-ever-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/mitsuko-uchida-wins-her-first-ever-grammy-3088\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsuko Uchida Wins Her First-Ever Grammy"},"content":{"rendered":"

2011 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra:<\/em><\/p>\n

Mozart, Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24
\nMitsuko Uchida, Cleveland Orchestra (Decca)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pianist Dame Mitsuko Uchida has just won her first-ever Grammy award. The recording, Mozart: Piano Concertos nos. 23 & 24, was released in the US on September 8, 2009 and is one in a series of recordings of Mozart concertos with Uchida planned on Decca. The Guardian wrote about this recording: \u201cAdmirers of Uchida\u2019s fabulously fluent Mozart playing will know what to expect from these accounts; every phrase is elegantly tooled, every texture perfectly weighted \u2026 a rapturously beautiful disc.\u201d Mitsuko Uchida has long been one of the world\u2019s premiere interpreters of Mozart\u2019s piano music both in the recording studio and the concert hall. She famously recorded the Mozart Concertos with Jeffrey Tate and the English Chamber Orchestra in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Recently, Uchida has decided to reconsider the works and now records them live with the Cleveland Orchestra in Severence Hall with the pianist also acting as conductor. This new approach in both logistics and style has yielded results which few could have imagined. \u201cMitsuko Uchida\u2019s Mozart playing here is stunningly sensitive, crystalline, and true. These two concertos have been over-recorded, but this soloist and this great orchestra prove there is still more to say.\u201d (Boston Globe \u2013 Record Review)<\/p>\n

The next recording in this series, Mozart: Piano Concertos nos. 20 & 27, will also feature the Cleveland Orchestra and Uchida as both conductor and soloist and will be released later this spring.<\/p>\n

Uchida said about the award, “I feel very happy about receiving this Grammy Award, especially because it is for the first recording in a series of Mozart concerti with The Cleveland Orchestra. These are people with whom I have a long association, so it gives me particular pleasure.”<\/p>\n

Read more:
\nThe 2011 Grammy Award Classical Winners<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here is an example of Uchida playing Mozart from a live concert during Salzburger Festspiele 2006:
\nW. A. Mozart – Piano concerto No 25 (Uchida, Vienna Philharmonic, Muti)<\/strong><\/p>\n