At the sight of the poster, we know that something should happen. But we don’t know what. Basically, it’s almost not possible, all the great pianists have performed this score and there have been huge successes (Pollini, Brendel, Cabasso, Staier, Kovacevich, Arrau, Backhaus, etc.). However, this incredible artist once again manages to amaze us. Things are clear here: these are not variations, it’s a whole, nearly an hour long, in various forms. The interpretation is of an absolute logic and its digging begins from the 2and variation, to then leave for astonishing universes (8and and 20and variations), escape into mystery, with a sometimes ghostly strangeness, a subtlety that defies expectations. Does this remind you of anything? The last quartets! The Diabelli Variations, it’s Beethoven’s Opus 120. Mitsuko Uchida, more than any other, plays “Opus 120”, a work subsequent to the 32and Sonata and which plunges into the “last Beethoven”. Arduous, essential, profoundly brilliant revelation.
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