Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas/Mitsuko Uchida album review – the music emerges as if new

Decca There are no major surprises in this live recording, just the simple but sublime sense that the music is being handed from composer, through pianist, to us Twenty years ago, Mitsuko Uchida released a studio recording of Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas that remains a benchmark. Now comes this performance recorded live in Tokyo last October. Those who have loved her previous recording won’t find big surprises – her interpretations remain similar, albeit at times a little broader or more elastic, and with less obvious urgency in, say, the brief second movements of Op 109 and 110. Yet,

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