Mitsuko Uchida performs Mozart's Piano Concerto #20- Romanze

[Aclaret001]

Simplesmente magnífico.

[squamish4244]

Mediocrities everywhere...I absolve you.

[SpaceWalkTraveller]

When I listen to Mozart, his music takes me straight to God.

[okicuru12]

all troubled by Mitsuko's facial expressions are also probably troubled by unfiltered reality.

[sirshitsalot007]

pianist conducts orchestra LIKE A BOSS

[BassicStorm]

why why why is this so freaking wonderful!?

[SpaceWalkTraveller]

@BassicStorm Because it's Mozart.....

[AsianShakespeare]

She looks so scary! If I don't look at her, the music is pretty... just dont look at her...

[JPacerox1]

the entire time i was completely mezmorized this is an outstanding concerto and performance and its beauty is the reason i pick up my violin every day :)

[BoschPianoMusic]

Wonderful!

[SuperTendril]

Did mitsuko uchida change the part from 1:53 to 2:35? It sounds different from my score

[311Ginger]

Madame Rossina Lhevinne of Juilliard said all these extraneous and painful expressions add nothing to the beauty of the music.

[celebrei]

Insert Asian in piano for epic playing

[imjapanophile]

What's the name of the concertmaster? She's cute, isn't she?

[Lawrencelovespiano]

@imjapanophile

It's on the title. :P Mitsuko Uchida. :) She's wonderful.

[thierry2001]

Listen to 7:48 to 8:00, you are accessing the gates of heaven. At 8:00, the doors open for you

[muscleboi4use]

MY goodness this is one wonderful, talented intelligent woman... incredible... I LOVE her expressions!!! Surely I am not the only one?!

[johnst66xx]

Her performance is so convincing, it sounds as if she wrote the concerto herself. She is one of the rare few pianists who can make the music their own.

[sailingsam]

Simply beauteous!

[SuperClali]

me encanta!!siempre tan impecable el trabajo de Uchida.

una pregunta, alguien sabe quien es la violinista de pelo corto?

[besamemucho5]

@SuperClali porque? te quieres casar con ella? digo de la del pelo corto....

[SuperClali]

@besamemucho5 jajaja no claro que no, me encanta toda la cancha que le pone al tocar

[jeffho777]

great music...but she looks like a witch

[memokk]

the chinese lady looks like she is having a music orgasm

[amendoesit]

@memokk: Japanese lady, my friend; an extremely intelligent and immensely gifted Japanese lady at that.

[CityslickCaptain]

@memokk That's because she is.

[SqueezeMyLemonBabe]

one of my favorite Mozart tunes.

[InsaneMetalSoldier]

OMFG I love this one!!! it was in one of my first piano CDs :D

[Giannini1980]

to judge this video on her expression, is a disrespect for her musicality... Uchida is great!

[MrMourice]

Miss Uchida is precious person in Japan for world-wide.

[okicuru12]

A perfect fantasy land does exist.

[geisterbahn1]

intergalagtic Mozart. The Miracle man.His music is so Sane and healing,you cant come away from a Mozart piece without being a better Human being.

[parismaurice]

Do you know this melody is famous as theme of PETIT RAT of l'Opera Garnier in Paris ?

[nikshaclarinet]

I love the smile of pure enjoyment on the concertmistress' face when the movement starts... Impeccable performance from all of them!

[09ec16]

we should just feel and listen her play.

[AdriaFloriDeSoc]

This is Jakie Chan, pianist version XD

[akbarbaby]

She's got soul.

[SLAIEH]

splendide Mitsuko !!!

[hildesia2]

Just wonderful.

[hildesia2]

Just wonderful

[cperez2010]

awesome!!

[KanukiePie]

lol XD her expressions were so weird, but she can play piano like a pro, and nice song :P

[politicopol]

Mitsuko...please be yourself...if we don't like how you do what you do...we have the choice to leave...otherwise we will stay to enjoy your winderful gifts...

[MilosAitos]

Itś the best of interpret.-)) 

[26mel1]

She's amazing !

[brandonb1100]

She didn't play exactly what Mozart wrote.

[sapperrdeflap]

@brandonb1100 That's exactly what performing is about, and doesn't she do old Wolfgang proud!

[ryvanoff]

Fiquei muito triste quando retiraram os vídeos de Mitsuko Uchida concerto para piano nr, 03 e 04 de Beethoven conduzido pelos Maestros Zubin Metha e Marris Jansons.

[ivomarinus]

i almost never cry. but i cried warm tears watching this wonderful, timeless mozart and heavenly uchida. i called my son - he plays piano - to enjoy it with me. but he watched me insteda; he had never seen me cry before.

[Lity10]

Funny how no one comments on her facial expressions, while a lot comment on Lang Lang's. People just mock him because everybody else does.

[nousernamewhatsoever]

@Lity10 I'll tell you why,because people are not stupid and can feel when it's genuine.This lady is obviously very special,her expressions genuine,her playing unique.When something's true you feel it and vice versa.

[Lity10]

@nousernamewhatsoever no, not true. Because people ARE stupid, they don't listen to Lang Lang's music. I bet you're one of them.

[nousernamewhatsoever]

@Lity10 well you would've lost the bet because I actually enjoy listening to Lang Lang.Unfortunately once I try and look at him I get distracted...

[Lity10]

@nousernamewhatsoever then don't look at him. What's the deal?!!

[nousernamewhatsoever]

@Lity10 I'm not looking,you just asked why aren't people bashing Uchida and I explained why...

[Lity10]

@nousernamewhatsoever oh, so you can feel his overexxagerated faceexpressions in through his playing? I see.

[nousernamewhatsoever]

@Lity10 actually,yeah.He's very musical but his face expressions are way off.Or to be more precise,they're a way to show off.

[Lawrencelovespiano]

@nousernamewhatsoever

Mitsuko Uchida is a female, not a male.

[Lawrencelovespiano]

@nousernamewhatsoever

OH! You were talking about Lang Lang, :S, never mind. 

[Lawrencelovespiano]

@Lity10

OH! You were talking about Lang Lang, :S, never mind.

[Lawrencelovespiano]

@Lity10

Mitsuko Uchida is a female, not a male!

[SirMeowMeow]

@Lity10 youtube is the musician's blessing and curse; musicians can spread their music to a broader audience, but now their appearance on stage becomes a relevant factor. Maybe pianists will start hiring makeup artists and stage consultants as part of standard practice in the profession.

[Jitpring]

This is not about Uchida. This is about Mozart. His name should always be first. Never should a conductor or player receive billing over Mozart. Incidentally, never should Mozart and his like (Beethoven, Bach) be listened to as mere background music. Their music merits full, undivided attention. To give it anything less than full attention is to be yet another of this age's rank philistines.

[Lity10]

@Jitpring I agree in the first part, but I don't think there's anything wrong in listening to Mozart, Beethoven or Bach (for example) as background music. A lot of string quartets, symphonies, etc. were made for background music at parties etc.

[krystosdobs]

so simple and so humble, such delicate tenderness! I wish there was a heaven for Mozart to have gone back to.

I love how Uchida's absolutely loving it.

[haaxeboys]

This brings tears to my eyes in so many ways. Mozart is one of the best things humanity has brought us.

[JasonGorr]

I love Mozart... but the . woman playing the piano looks like she came from Sesame street.... Example: 0:38 - 0:50

[chinwutai]

Mozart died when he was 35. But if you think about it, it made little difference to him last year.

[discovolante2608]

Magnificent... truly magnificent.... she is a legend, she is playing the of a legendary genius... what more could you possibly ask for ?? This is just pure beauty - plain and simple !

[nabicibo]

THIS VÍDEO /MUSIC has the capacity to reconnect me with my best fellings, hope and gratitude to be a human being.

Thks!!! God, Mozart, Ushida and all musicians

[scarfyrre]

I was in a horrid mood until I listened to this. It never fails to relax me, and her playing was gorgeous. Brava!

[Bramborail]

:)

lovable

[1980NewWave]

what the hell is with the bassoonists (and others) at 4:11?? those are supposed to be loud, booming notes accompanying the stormy solo section

[ToonKerssemakers]

Listen to this beautiful piano concerto

[nidejiayi]

内天光子的Mozart不再是粉红色的，但也自有她的韵味儿

[shelibeli55]

i love her...

[mcv147]

i watched the ending credits to AMADEUS repeatedly just to listen to this. just beautiful!

[maidestone]

@mcv147 I did too! Imogen Cooper understated the music so elegantly that the charm there is indeed infinite.

[passingshadow26]

lovely! her beautiful playing flows over you like a soothing shower

[pyrioni]

Beautiful!

[nabicibo]

Musica divina. Interpretação magnífica. BRAVO! Só por poder ouvir esse concerto, já valeu viver!

[porschemagicbus]

我都不知道你在說什么

[arpegio2009]

excelente interpretación!

[arpegio2009]

excelente interpretacion,felicitaciones!­

[Kyrios79]

woooooow... maestra.....

[HerrWarja]

Refering ot m comment two mounths ago, I have reliable sources!

[GuaraldiGuy]

Someone gave me a negative rating for my comment 3 weeks ago. I honestly meant that the performance moved me tremendously. I wasn't being facetious.

[xbagheerax]

notes I mean

[xbagheerax]

has someone note to this for piano?

[GuaraldiGuy]

Just gee freakin' whiz...That is so beautiful!

[dmcII]

You got that right. My favorite movement from my favorite Mozart PC. Awesome !

[marcin8942]

Wonderful performance ,Uchida is my favorit pianist .He play in original style ,arpeggios and ornaments performed lovely.

Thank You for music

Greetings from Germany

Martin

[RaiderEleven]

The awesome Mitsuko Uchida is amazing! And she conducts from the piano as well. Simply Superb!!

[gzaenker]

She is so beautiful, inside and out, I want to kiss her

[Saggezzasaphira]

Wowo, Wonderful playing.

i like to much the way she moves. cant express wht is, but understand.

music is far away from humanity. this is divinity.

[gzaenker]

Saggezz: Yes. she is divine. And you are too!

[Saggezzasaphira]

me????

[gzaenker]

yes, we all are, whether we know it or not

[goroundit123]

thank you for posting this...what wonderful playing...

[BeUrself0897]

Hitler wanted to be an artist not a musician. He was rejected from art school in Vienna and he was forced to sell postcards on the street.

[HerrWarja]

You are somewhat wrong. Hitler wanted to be an musician and a composer for a wile... He even started to write an opera, but the scores are missing. He got help from a friend because he couldn't write notes. He took pianolessons, but the intress for music wasn't for long...

[goroundit123]

played consummately beautifully...with manifest humility...unlike many we could mention

[jeroenberge]

Amazing! 1:29 - 1:42

[geisterbahn1]

Before Politicians decide to have a war! why not send them all to a mozart concert . Im sure the war would be cancelled the next day.

[thierry2001]

lol

[dmcII]

Good idea !

[triton2008]

Definitely. Let's send them :)

[jpandyaraja]

also let the public at large listen to

this before they go to vote !!

[nakedBison69]

that would only work if our sworn islamofascist enemies would be similarly pacified by Mozart's music

[bunnyoneedge]

I've heard that if Hitler hadn't been rejected from a music school in Vienna, he wouldn't have become a fascist.

[nakedBison69]

I heard that adolf shitler was a painter, not a musician. it was charles manson who had been a musician

[b42baritone]

@geisterbahn1

No matter if all politicians sit around a campfire and roasting mushmello and singing songs. There are evil people in the world.

[nakedBison69]

what you said here is so sadly true

[nakedBison69]

very insightful and so sadly true

[nakedBison69]

G-d I wish that were true. I was horrified to learn, though, that Mozart's music was played in the nazi concentration camps, right as the nazis were murdering Jews in the most cruel fashion possible. Mozart's music SHOULD inspire people to be better people, and yet there is apparently little correlation between appreciating this music and being a good person. strange, yet sadly true

[nakedBison69]

if only it were that simple! the horrifying truth is that the beautiful music of mozart was also played in the nazi concentration camps, just as the nazis were torturing and murdering millions of Jews

[ThatsQ]

@geisterbahn1

They probably all do go already.

[ThatsQ]

@geisterbahn1

They probably all do go already

[geisterbahn1]

@ThatsQ wrong ! if thet all went to Wofgangs concerts , theirs no way they could walk out and declare war the next day .

[romga23]

Esta canción me gusta mucho

[toddhumphry]

A line of melody runs hauntingly and serenely right through the movement The middle part, though, has no real melody, but a sheet of ingraining pointalistic resonance.

A big favourite of mine. Don't really know anything better than this, except maybe from Mozart self.

[nakedBison69]

Mozart self or Mozart himself?

[COLEVANY]

When was this whole fascinating orchestra performed!?

[Eba123456789]

This is just another great playing of Uchida. Great interpretation on this movement. Very pretty. Her touch is perfect.

[Stban11]

jajajajaja she plays splendid, and i love her funny faces jajajaja, its just sublime!!

[TedMichaelMorgan]

This is a splendid interpretation of a great work of art. Thank you for posting it. Uchida is a great scholar and a great performer.

[largemoose]

"There is a reason I have a disproportionate Baroque bias, because it was the period of the greatest music ever written, with the exception of Mozart"

still just your opinion

[cdera01]

Beethoven tiene mas obras maestras que todos los mencionados, Aún eso se puede discutir, pero lo que no se discute es la importancia que tiene ludwg en la musica....

Mozart es precioso pere beethoven te adentra más en la musica la sientes más sientes caqda nota que esta en su lugar, es mi parecer y apuesto que el de la mayoria que sabe de musica y que ha escuchado obras de todos los compositores mencionados.

Beethoven esta muy alto....

[freeqwerqwer]

I don't think Mozart would approve of Uchida's bathroom facial contortions. Also Uchida lacks a qualit y of Mozart: optimism.

[nakedBison69]

freeQwerQwer wrote the above comment while sitting on his toile

[abercrombiejackie]

I disagree.

Mozart loved bathroom humor....so he might find slight humor in it. Just slightly....

[cjnomacen]

1 mozart 2 bach 3 stravinsky 4 brahms 5 haydn 6 beethoven 7 handel 8 monteverdi 9 berio 10 berg 7 bartok

[freeqwerqwer]

choices from 8 to 10 will elicit guffaws

[saltyseaweed]

Stravinsky above Brahms and Beethoven? Really not sure about that.

[nakedBison69]

the five greatest musicians of all time are Mozart, Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Beethoven

[didondio]

what about Chopin?!!

[goroundit123]

schubert...had he not died so young...

[yossiban]

would not put handel, mozart or haydn in there.

Would put instead Bach, beethoven, brahms, ravel, prokofieff

[nakedBison69]

no, only 18th century music is good, such as Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Mozart

[yossiban]

Every generation has genius!...

I used to be a purist, but then I realised that it is shutting out greatness that is all too true!!

... the preference of styles is individual, but their greatness is not denyable.

[nakedBison69]

I can prove that 18th century music was the greatest ever written. Just look at classical music written in the last 100 years. Almost all of it is worthless garbage.  somewhere in between the 18th century and the 20th century, classical music went way way way down in quality

[frogbuster20]

i disagree, look at a stravinsky (whom i dislike), Bartok, Kodaly, Mahler, Franck, Shostakovic and a few others - still, mozart is more enjoyable

[Maximillian17]

We allow ourselves to appreciate Mozart more because he reflects the childish beauty and simplicity of our feelings. Whether happy or distraught, the feelings in these pieces are as eternally simple and elegant as the human condition will always remain; beneath all complexity and advancement that we feign.

[frogbuster20]

well put. It is simple but at the same time, its filled with a total and humane meaning. To be honest, by now i cannot even listen to pieces of mozart in a critical way. Every single time I put one on, im envelopped by its beauty. And its for this exact reason that i could imagine my life without Wagner, but never without Mozart.

PS: not english, spelling sucks

[nakedBison69]

i could totally imagine my life without a shitler loving antisemite like Richard Wagner. Mozart, in contrast, is G-d

[gzaenker]

Well said, Maximillian. Love your comment. You are cool, man! Love you

[Jaimejimmyjim]

@Maximillian17 Well said !!!

[Kaeralho]

@Maximillian17 those, my friend, were wise and precise words

[stefansand]

hhmm.. later were rachmannoff and liszt ? they wasn´t good ?

[nakedBison69]

stefanSand's english they was not good

[lamiche32]

umm...bartok at no. 7????!!!!

[largemoose]

"The ten greatest musical composers of all time are: 1) Mozart 2) Bach 3) Beethoven 4) Handel 5) Haydn 6) Bach's sons 7) Vivaldi 8) Telemann 9) Purcell 10) Corelli " You seem to have a disproportionate Baroque bias. Also, this is just YOUR list.

[Mercer1012]

Agree. Nice list. I would put Haydn higher than Handel though. Still, very good.

[nakedBison69]

Personally, I prefer Handel over even Beethoven, but put him lower only because of the univerally high regard that people have for Beethoven

[zralokvemigraci]

i miss Dvořák in the list.

[nakedBison69]

There is a reason I have a disproportionate Baroque bias, because it was the period of the greatest music ever written, with the exception of Mozart

[largemoose]

"As an impersario Uchida expresses the passion of this timeless music that Wolfgang intended to convey in his creation of this work."

It's not that she looks bad. It's that she is over dramatic and histrionic in the way she moves.

There's no need for such absurd facial expressions, the music can talk on its own.