Mitsuko Uchida review – quiet elegance and finely etched details

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe pianist eschewed grandstanding and foregrounded Schumann’s intimacies and introspection in a programme that also included Liszt, Mozart and KurtágKreisleriana and the C major Fantasy, arguably Schumann’s two supreme works for piano, formed the major part of Mitsuko Uchida’s latest London recital. They have been part of Uchida’s repertory for some while, and she has made fine recordings of both, but pairing them in concert was somethin