Mitsuko Uchida — Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 109, 110 & 111 (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025)

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<b>In a riveting live performance, the Japanese pianist makes her final, loving account of these astonishing masterpieces.</b> Mitsuko Uchida’s performances of Beethoven’s remarkably rich and forward-looking late sonatas, recorded live in October 2025, are generally broader than those of her excellent 2006 studio version of these same works. While there’s no loss of life or liveliness compared to the earlier recording, Uchida here offers more ebb and flow to her playing, slowing down at the ends of phrases as if taking a lingering appreciation of the view before turning the next corner, or just teasingly delaying before reaching a climactic statement. The opening movements of Sonatas Nos 30 and 31 are given a compellingly fresh, improvisatory quality, as if Uchida were inventing every twist and turn of this music, and she effortlessly reveals the distinct characters of each of these sonatas’ brief scherzos. Yet more striking is the difference between the harmonic warmth and playfulness of <b>Sonata No. 30</b>’s theme and variations finale, performed with fluid grace, and <b>No. 31’s “Adagio ma non troppo”</b>, which appears more than usually mysterious and ominous in Uchida’s long and sustained account, yet with a suitably Bach-like hint in its harmonies which come to the fore in the following fugue. The drama intensifies further with <b>Sonata No. 32</b>’s opening movement, Uchida giving edge to its dramatic, stark-sounding discords. And the way she weighs each chord that opens the “Arietta” variations finale, bringing out their rich resonance, nicely contrasts with the skipping rhythms and syncopations of the lively variation starting at 6:39, Uchida evidently as “light-footed” as ever.

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Mitsuko Uchida

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  1. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: I. Vivace ma non troppo – Adagio espressivo – (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 4:14
  2. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: II. Prestissimo (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 2:28
  3. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo. Gesangvoll mit innigster Empfindung (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 13:08
  4. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 7:18
  5. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 2:32
  6. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: IIIa. Adagio ma non troppo (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 4:21
  7. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: IIIb. Fuga. Allegro ma non troppo (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 9:00
  8. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: I. Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 10:31
  9. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice cantabile (Live at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2025) 19:55