Mitsuko Uchida / Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Mozart / Bartók
Mozart from a new angle
Mitsuko Uchida and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra have established a close artistic partnership and together they approach Mozart’s piano concertos from a new angle. They have developed a deep mutual trust and to give this artistic collaboration a particularly intense form, Mitsuko Uchida conducts the orchestra from the piano.
The pianist, who moved to Vienna when she was twelve years old, is regarded as one of the world’s leading interpreters of Mozart’s work. For her, »almost every Mozart piece is an opera; you find scenes from life everywhere you look, including very ordinary ones«. In her performance at the Elbphilharmonie, she interprets two concertos from Mozart’s Vienna period, one of which (No. 17 in G major, KV 453) really ends like an opera: the final movement, after several variations, turns into a kind of concertante operatic finale.
The two Mozart concertos are framed by Béla Bartók’s Divertimento –this time, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as soloists.
Performers
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester G-Dur KV 453
Béla Bartók
Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz 113
– Interval –
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester C-Dur KV 503