Mitsuko Uchida's long association with the Cleveland Orchestra dates back to 1990, first as soloist then as conductor. Her relationship with the Mozart concertos goes back further. She began her complete cycle with Jeffrey Tate, still a benchmark, in 1985. Increasingly now she directs from the keyboard, producing a new intimacy to her performances of work she knows so well. The result is joyful, probing and vivacious in the early Jeunehomme in E flat major, K271 and in the grand C major, K467, both of which have famously tender, poetic slow movements. The ensemble between Uchida and the Cleveland is cleanly articulated but always full of wonder and curiosity.
