Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss: A thoughtful, extraordinarily detailed performance of Schubert piano duets

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’s Wigmore Hall Festival, and therefore the official opening concert of Whyte Recital Hall, the 300-seat venue built as part of the academy’s €25 million campus development., in Wexford. The immediate likenesses of the balcony’s design and use of wood are so thorough that it’s like meeting Wexford’s smaller sibling. The orange seating is firm, supportive and comfortable, and, with a 6ft frame, I experienced no issues with legroom.

Uchida and Biss offer four works. Three of them are among the best-known of Schubert’s duets: the surging, stormy, pathos-rich Allegro in A minor, D947, the altogether more fluid Rondo in A, D951, tinged with gentle, soothing balm, and the Divertissement à la Hongroise, D818, often as exotic and jaunty as the title sounds but also haunted by Schubertian darkness. To this they add an extended funeral march, the fifth from the set of six, D819.

 

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