she practiced 40 hours a day for this

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Original video: • MOZART PIANO CONCERTO ...
Piece: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major K. 503
Performed by: Mitsuko Uchida
Transcribed by: Tony Williams
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[@GeorgeCollier]

i know we take the piss out of classical a bit here but there are some incredible musicians and amazing pieces of music you all ought to check out :) this is Mitsuko Uchida by the way, performing her cadenza of Piano Concerto 25 K. 503

[@juanf.crespo2639]

Mozart, of course

[@NeoRazor]

Piano Concerto 25,000. Boy that Mozart sure was prolific.

[@bgolden0707]

tapa tapa tapa.... trilolololo!!! had me rolling! loved your commentary on a beautiful performance.

[@Concertym]

Mozart man, this is so great. That music is so fresh and beautifull. Mozart for eternity. Beethoven concerto 5 is something too...

[@omarino99]

why’d you “take the piss” out of classical music, I don’t understand

[@serbianchromus]

she practiced so hard that she rose the boundary of a day being 24 hours to 40 hours, so inspiring

[@ricomarcelmusic]

Played right past the time space continuum

[@bgill7475]

That's the meme...

[@jcjeffpfa]

Thats what I was thinking 🤣🤣🤣

[@alexxdaye-alberson7243]

I was just asking the same question!!!!!! Maybe she's figured out time travel through musical quantum physics and we haven't caught up to it yet. LOL! That's my theoretical guess seeing that there are only 24 hours in a day. Either way, she did it! Nobel Prize winning stuff there!

[@Tracy-mz9bi]

Because she is Ling Ling And I found the classcial world is so mean. People will judge her performance. People will ask if this piece is hard enough, will she sound nice on more challenging piece 😂

[@aumenarys]

she's now 73yo and still plays everything by heart. she's phenomenal!

[@triplezgames3882]

73 * 365 * 40h = 1 065 800h of practice... crazy 🤯

[@SillyNolan]

if she's 73 then she's 121.66666

[@mystictnediser3854]

It's like cat age. Music age

[@mempotato3189]

@@triplezgames3882 she didn’t practice from birth though did she

[@triplezgames3882]

@@mempotato3189 Yeah was a joke... look at the title, 40h a day is pretty unlikely as well

[@jamiececilielange5249]

I looked her up. Her name is Mitsuko Uchida and she gave her first recital at 14 and is now 74 y/o. I don't know when this video was recorded, but she now has 60 years of experience playing piano. I'm glad to see she hasn't stopped playing. Most videos I see, the musicians are often 15-35 years old.

[@piotrlara3002]

I would say that is because most of pianists become teachers (proffessors), and dedicate their lives to teaching, especially after 35/40 years old

[@lomlam58]

This is very common in classical music, pianists specially keep playing until they're dead or almost. With various qualities of playing but some of them stay amazing until the end.

[@adrianosz8780]

She's actually only 19 years old. It's because she practices 40 hours a day, so the age number goes faster.

[@jepz11]

Thank you, Jamie. It is her life shining through, how she plays this.

[@Karen-ul9hd]

Look up Martha Argerich, still magnificent at 82 or Maria Joao Pires, 79

[@samylemzaoui2298]

she plays every note so clean it doesnt even sound like a piano at parts it's crazy

[@Stu5727]

1:32 briefly sounds like a synth or a midi from a video game soundtrack, insanely consistent intonation

[@ElMage11]

@@Stu5727 What does this mean? How can piano players have a "voice" or a different sound? how do they influence the sound of the instrument?

[@samuelwaller4924]

@@ElMage11 the force when they strike the key, how they strike the key, how you release the key, basically everything can affect the tone, though not much so you usually don't think about it which is why it is so crazy how consistant her tone is lol

[@chicken_burgers]

@@ElMage11 it’s like failing to press your cords on bass drawing it with inconsistent strengths so much can influence the tone

[@ryanbrown5141]

Wait thats a she?

[@marijnvangeest]

0:14 just imagine this being a real sheet music page with the transcript reading: "very clean damn" And the pianist is thinking: "oh, well ok. Let me try..."

[@c.j.4014]

omg I would love to have sheet music like this LOL

[@cockballsiii6524]

*tapa tapa tapa tapa tapa tapa*

[@Triairius]

I'm sure we'll see more of it as we get more younger people as composers. It'll bring some great life to their music!

[@mrping2603]

"Very fast" well shoot ok let's go

[@chanhailey7848]

*trillololol*

[@evifnoskcaj]

Mitsuko Uchida is one of the best interpreters of Mozart. Period. She is phenomenal, incredibly controlled and refined, and a true musician of the highest caliber. She has several performances where she conducts from the piano. She's the real deal!

[@Tennisisreallyfun]

Agreed! She really is the best when it comes to Mozart, she and Orli Shaham as well. They just have such a clean, crystalline yet sweet/warm tone! And so elegant! Perfect for Mozart🤩

[@angelito2144]

She's a legend

[@TheRealGnolti]

Her Schubert is up there with Brendel's.

[@師太滅絕]

Lili Kraus

[@ckzf1842]

Absolutely agree ! ❤❤❤

[@dtzku]

She is the one who can legitimately claim to have 30 years of experience at the age of 18!

[@NotToffie]

big brain meth

[@NotToffie]

marh

[@datutturugang666]

@@NotToffie mars mark dark warp spark dork

[@yourgirleft]

same as the 40 hours in a day thing so get you i get you

[@laraerdelyi4299]

@@yourgirleft the 40 h a day is a meme..the title of the video is a joke..but non-musicials dont get it(or even musicials but if you are one you have vetter chances to do so)

[@aaroni6172]

Her phrasing is so good and her dynamic contrast is so good it sounds like she’s playing an entire orchestra god DAMN

[@mj11222]

No!! God BLESS!! 🙏

[@tylerbuck9347]

@@mj11222 yes

[@mj11222]

@@tylerbuck9347 😇🙏

[@kagitsune]

Right?? She makes Mozart sound like Lizst, it's incredible! 😍

[@lamhamzzzzzz]

she does in fact play a whole orchestra; see her conducting concerts while also playing the piano

[@marcedoreste]

40 hours a day, 8 days a week,6 weeks a month and 13 months a year, truly a hard working woman ☕

[@wowmediz5000]

40 hours a day? 8 days a week? 13 months a year??? this gotta be a joke

[@marcedoreste]

@@wowmediz5000 duh

[@qurjus]

That's like, 2.85 mortal years

[@Skibidicookies-s7i]

​@@wowmediz5000yeah. It is. This comment is a joke. The title of the video is a joke. Whoopdeedoo you know what a joke is! 😐

[@sufferhead6943]

I saw 40 hrs a day and instantly clicked. That sort of dedication deserves to be worshipped.

[@rj119x]

literally just like me frfr

[@Chorro38]

Exactly, me too 😂

[@sufferhead6943]

@@ncjenx9504 Use mere mortals could never ever hope to dream of acheiving her level.

[@coupdetat2318]

Them little numbers, i dedicate 41 hours a day for breathing? How about that?

[@zordevo7485]

@@ncjenx9504 24 hrs does really feel like 40 hrs on acid lul

[@Tony32]

She practiced 40 hours a day, 8 days a week. That's commitment!

[@sistersshenanigans]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@xo_lexie]

I heard she practiced 9 days a week! 🤯

[@matthiastroitzsch7666]

...64 weeks a year. Amazing!

[@anbiyaftab891]

24 months a year

[@Kopie0830]

Wt fuddge hooo hooo haaaa haaa!

[@VereBirdIII]

That is not an incredibly hard piece where virtuoso passages are concerned but the musicality of Mozart and Ms. Uchida is the virtuosity here. Bravo to the both of them, well done!!

[@Samuri_Jack_Enjoyer]

Mozart is dauntingly virtuosic; one wrong note and everyone notices it, unlike Rachmaninoff or Liszt.

[@chocoflake8027]

​@@Samuri_Jack_Enjoyer You can notice the wrong note better, because it's kept more simple... Mozart's music is incredible, however Liszt and Rachmaninoff are beyond virtuosic, and it's not how difficult it is to notice a wrong note, it's about the difficulty of the piece itself. The listeners don't matter.

[@adrianwright8685]

@@Samuri_Jack_Enjoyer "one wrong note and everyone notices it" True - but that's especially true for the simplest music - not the most virtuosic!

[@Samuri_Jack_Enjoyer]

@@adrianwright8685 maybe virtuosic is the wrong word, but making "simple" music entertaining requires a high level of musical creativity. With liszt or rach, pianists tend to get sloppy or lazy; if they just bang the chords out it'll be good enough. Mozart does not let you get away with that. So although his music may not require physical virtuosity, you DO need a high level of psychological virtuosity; not only to give this theoretically simple music depth and complexity but to also do that while knowing "one wrong note and everyone notices it."

[@Samuri_Jack_Enjoyer]

@@chocoflake8027 what i meant by "everyone notices it" is that it ruins the price, ruins the magic. With "bigger" works that are more dramatic and expressive sometimes playing wrong notes is encouraged, usually at a climax, to ADD to the musical character of the piece. These climaxes are usually very difficult and so pianists will think "oh it doesn't have to be perfect because playing wrong notes adds character". In Mozart, playing wrong notes will only detract from the music. That is why it's so difficult, there are no excuses.

[@afterimage1993]

that's amazing that she could practice 40 HOURS a DAY!

[@saveusfromidiocracy35]

😂. I can barely sleep for 29 hours a day.

[@rosiefay7283]

It's a running joke on TwoSet Violin.

[@bobbyjeffsupremelordofcraz3532]

It's dedication few are able to match. Truly she is among the greats...

[@stereotypicalitalian5450]

BRO IKR

[@crylynz2368]

A day is 24 hours dumbo

[@alphonsenyoumssi4893]

In a recent interview she said she raised the bar to 50 hours per day … in my opinion it doesn’t get better than that , she’s really dedicated to her art

[@venturamolina5514]

But isn't there only 24 hours in a day?

[@higherlunacy]

@ventura molina WOOSH!!

[@CathyZhang]

60 hours a day will be her next bar

[@sean-jsjincorporated8881]

@@venturamolina5514 It. Is. A. JOKE.

[@SamSmith07]

@@venturamolina5514 he’s not a real ling ling

[@GiladPellaeon]

Uchida is a fantastic pianist, I especially love her interpretation of the Beethoven Concertos, she recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic!

[@darrenliang1723]

as a pianist its not easy to switch up dynamics that flawlessly. its incredible how she does that with so much elegance

[@antoinedebruit6140]

Work very slowly you'll be surprise how easy it helps the body memorise the dynamic changes

[@sephyy.c5360]

as a pianist switching up dynamics is incredibly easy what r u talking about

[@superbowyiming]

@@sephyy.c5360 Actually what he said is right. At the beginning yeah it's easier but later it's much harder due to how scores written and the piano structure. I'd say at the end it's harder than strings and woodwinds for dynamic control (I feel that when playing piano n saxophone

[@sephyy.c5360]

@@superbowyiming as someone who has played piano for upwards of 15 years yes her feel for the music and her transitions are very impressive but changing fluidly between dynamics is not hard if you have any basic talent lmao

[@DingleberryQuandale]

Shes practices 40 hours a day, ofc she does that easily

[@jobhighschoolofcrosscity8430]

Playing that fast and at such a quiet voice is one of the hardest things in piano and requires masterful finger control. This is amazing

[@gailhall6283]

You almost have to stop breathing for that kind of control. I found myself holding my breath for her at certain places in the music. Brilliant. She's brilliant.

[@HogbergPhotography]

She has a good piano probably in the $1M class.. Not some old crappy school piano with hard to push keys..

[@n085fs]

Piano has such a distinct sound, and she made it not sound like that. That was worth watching. Bravo.

[@wisdomseeker0142]

You know what!!! I’m a violinist but even I have to pick my damn jaw off the floor at how she controls the volume of those notes. She plays so fast and aggressive with articulation then she slows and slightly presses the keys with an utmost gentleness and makes individual tones sing. She doesn’t press the keys with the same force. I can’t describe what I’m hearing in accurate detail because this is not my instrument but I hear how she is making the notes come to life. This woman is an artist.

[@godwinyan5448]

Yes

[@organboi]

What does your being a violinist have to do with anything?

[@mentsu.3308]

@@organboi brings some musical knowledge onto the table

[@jameshakai1662]

​@@organboi Violinists have a much more direct control over their dynamics, as they have a direct connection to the sound producing part of their instrument, whereas pianists connect indirectly through hammers. Control of dynamics is therefore easier on a violin. In other words, if a violinist is impressed with a pianist's control of dynamics, than that pianist's control is implied to be extraordinarily good

[@an6350]

@@jameshakai1662 exactly

[@evifnoskcaj]

Mitsuko Uchida is so refined, exquisite, and her Mozart is perfect.

[@vanjavanja3905]

REALLY ? UAUAUA !!! AND YOU ARE A GENIUS MAYVBE !

[@gonzalo4658]

@drz-krak she composed all that,its her cadenza

[@rafaelkentoyamamoto8600]

@drz-krak How silly. The most captivating aspects of a presentation are the feeling, dynamics, pauses and other aspects that no robot can imitate, as it is unique to each interpreter.

[@gonzalo4658]

@drz-krak youre right lol, this is all right Though we knew that innately. Nothing can take away from her exquisite cadenza based on - wait - MOZART THEMES? Mozart was brilliant and also original, but Mozart and Co was also a personal expression of Haydn. About 80% of the time. So let Uchida’s cadenza be an expression of that musical period. At least that’s my theory. “Arthur, not everyone’s bland. You’re bland, Murray”. I think whenever someone forms a cadenza, it’s by nature not 100% “original”, but the brilliancy, ingenuity, and quality is just totally distinct from all that preceded it. Like I said, yes it doesn’t count as “original”, but it does count as original. What she contrived here stems from Mozart’s themes yes, but we can at least respect how far she went to separate from that. The real nail in the hammer, though, is that Mozart was much himself a cog in a capital ‘c’ Classical machine. Her fanciful modulations reflect much more awesome music than merely a representation of an artist. I dare say, even more than merely a representation of that whole period. She engineers here a lovelily diverse domain of musical permutations. I said lovelily on purpose, and meant something more like ‘amiably’; adverb to, let’s say, rhetorically intensify the titillation of the tonal tensions? Perhaps we’ll excuse my long-winded, multi-pillared theory in the end. It’s definitely an open-ended subject. I ultimately return my case back to the care of your very enlightening and very neutral thoughts. + We don needa be robotic and robust about Mozart and Bach. Beethoven? Okay, maybe we’ll leave his works perfectly alone. But that’s the thing, because he liked cadenzas, he was on board with the idea, and supplied his own. Bach intended ornaments, and Mozart cadenzas. Impressionist stylists maybe not so much - MAYBE.

[@gizelop8481]

Awesome playing skills, GOD bless her, she's wonderful

[@ok45038]

Phenomenal playing! I had the pleasure of seeing her perform 6 of Schubert's impromptus recently. Her interpretation was phenomenal, the best I've ever heard of the works, and was so captivating. I was on the edge of my seat for the entire concert!

[@da96103]

What happened to the other 2?

[@ok45038]

@@da96103 She didn't play them for some reason, couldn't tell you why. The ones she didn't play were op.90 no2 and no3 (from the first set of four chronologically). I suppose it made the program short enough to not require an interlude, and since you often play the two she left out as a pair, it made sense to cut them? A real shame, as I was learning those two specifically at the time and I would have liked to see a live interpretation of them.

[@chengliklik]

Question! At 1:38 bar 51, the right-hand notes were F#-A-D-F#-D-A-F# but she played both Ds with a C and C# respectively. Was it a piano score transcription mistake, or she actually played the wrong note? (though I'd doubt the latter) Because I have to say, if she actually changed the notes, I'd be impressed, since it sounded so good! I can feel the tension in the arpeggio!

[@theangrycheeto]

@@ok45038 Do you play any musical instruments yourself?

[@ok45038]

@@theangrycheeto I do, I've played the piano (classically trained) for about 7 years now, and I dabble in other instruments - particularly guitar. Piano is my primary instrument though.

[@viosavvy]

I worked for her during the Marlboro Music Festival and listening to her practice even at her age now was UNREAL. What an absolute legend.

[@Kosmo_Z]

Glad to see classical music getting some exposure on this channel!

[@Luca-yg5qx]

Check out "B Sharp" and "f flat", basically George Collier for Classical.

[@yunarukami14]

@@Luca-yg5qx Thanks for the recommendation, men.

[@Dancingonthesun]

It's like a butterfly is fluttering around my head, the notes are so gentle and precise. Beautiful.

[@arnopr]

Superb. Probably the best that can be done whilst fighting a modern (say post late 19th-century) piano to play what was written for earlier piano designs on which achieving crisp clarity comes naturally rather than being a battle.

[@derekforde7164]

Only when I started making piano videos did I realize how hard it is to play a piece near perfect in one take. I can only hope to be half as good as performers like this.

[@krasw]

I would be totally happy to be 0.1% as good as this.

[@ricasa2005]

HALF?!

[@UnknownMastery]

She trained so hard she managed 40 hours into 1 day

[@Danny-pd9yb]

That’s the twoset meme

[@aprilwright3900]

Same. Maybe like Hermione, maybe the Ministry of Magic authorized a Time-Turner for her

[@charlieogre4537]

I was hoping someone would point that out.

[@AdrienneZazulak]

thank you. I came here looking for this comment!

[@nataliableu6390]

@@aprilwright3900 Harry Potter fan here. ✋ I want a Time Turner for Christmas.🎅🎄

[@sustainablelife1st]

some of these composers just wrote impossible pieces for self-agandizing vanity purposes. But good on her for showing them!

[@PrimalCougar125]

She practices 40 hours a day, 12 days a week, and 465 weeks a year, so inspiring

[@randyla6706]

you're so wrong! A year only has 365 WEEKS.

[@Rickkeys377]

@@randyla6706r/whooooooooosh

[@digojez]

​@@randyla6706I think they meant 465 weeks per month and 365 months per year 🙏😊

[@marksmith3947]

She has to take 100 weeks of vacation every year to recuperate. She crams that into the end of December

[@MARTIN201199]

But just the first 30 years of her childhood.

[@maddy3852]

me: practices 4 hours a month also me: why can't I play like that ...

[@mellonhead9568]

Me on GarageBand loops: frick imma DJ baby

[@martamara1979]

😂

[@m.moonsie]

Maybe its time to be a DJ.

[@user-dy5rs3po2o]

4 hours a month? Who?

[@mikethebeginner]

You could double that if you tried really hard.

[@Euphonious.]

I must say I am fascinated by how someone can be so dedicated that they can break the boundaries of science. Amazing indeed.

[@unspeakablevorn]

"man this sounds like the french national anthem what's going on here" Wikipedia: One of the secondary themes of the concerto's first movement is a march that often reminds people of "La Marseillaise". Guess I'm not the only one who thinks that. This was composed 6 years earlier, so maybe La Marseillaise should remind people of this...

[@Madchemist002]

I had the same thought when hearing it. "Allons enfants de la patrie!" Just rang in my head each time the theme came up.

[@albertosousatenor]

Thank you for saving me that trip to Wikipedia…

[@angelito2144]

We can hear again these same notes with the same rythm pattern in the first act of Don Giovanni, strikingly enough when Leoporello is referring to France kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5zNq4eqr5KfkLM I used to think there was some kind of influence or even sincronicity between Mozart and Rouget de Lisle, but now my theory is that it's just a coincidence. During the classical period there were rules about how to iniciate a melody, how to please the public, what chords were appropiate for the first bars, etc. and the combination dominant->tonic was extremely popular for the first two notes of a phrase. Once you reach the tonic, if you want to keep ascending your options are scale (V-I-II-III-IV-V), arpeggio (V-I-III-V) or, if you want to make something more original but within the tastes of that period, the brand new combination V-I-II-V, which is what both composers chose to do in different places and different years but in the same art period. *Notice that the melody V-I-IV-V doesn't sound well, V-I-VII-V is horrible and V-I-VI-V was destined to make history two centuries later in Texas ;D kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqSuiWaqjMaCm9k

[@machine-shopbilly6584]

She's so talented she's able to practice 40 hours in a 24 hour day. I'd like to see you do that

[@godwinyan5448]

Ok

[@desil30stm]

It's a running joke from Twoset violin. Ningning 40h

[@mimiseton]

Dear Mitsuko, I bet Wolfie is overjoyed with the way you make his music sing! It doesn't get any better than this!

[@gtoyadhatagyab8013]

She played so fast in her practice that she sped up time to go faster than earth's rotation to fit 40 hours in a day...

[@Tore_Lund]

Yes this is played too fast according to the notes? Well music tradition is something to cherish. I'm highly impressed.

[@GourSmith]

Time is subjective. She experiences time differently than us-that’s all.

[@師太滅絕]

Just the opposite.....It is because she does SLOW PRACTICE. very important.... she practice so slowly that time come still, that is why she can practice 40 hours each day, 10 days each week, and 7 weeks each month, and 24 months per year......(Musicians, and budding musicians all know what SLOW PRACTICE means).

[@Sesamox]

The amazing thing is not how well she plays, but the fact that she went to Mercury or Venus in order to practice 40 hours a day!

[@menyaa]

It's a reference to TwoSet Violin, a youtube channel. Go watch it, they're really funny

[@lunarwolfcassia9435]

Its a joke from TwoSetViolin go watch their videos

[@storagebee1597]

It's a comical expression used by some wise men, more formerly known as TwoSet Violin. They are considered and very much are a laughing matter, not in a quite rude way but a ludicrously big way to express whats called funny. I recommend you to watch these courteous videos, they are comically funny and I can concur and vouch that these comments are for sure a true and honest specimen.

[@sillowillo]

What the hell is a twoset violin? She clearly went to Venus to do this

[@lunarwolfcassia9435]

@@sillowillo TwoSetViolin is a pretty famous classical music youtube channel and they made this "Practice 40 hours a day" meme/quote.

[@prajaktagupta]

I mean, the talent just shines through! I’m speechless! ❤

[@pianoish]

Mitsuko Uchida is an amazing pianist. One of my favorites. I hear a bit of Figaro in that cadenza. Specifically Act 2 finale.

[@debob513]

She got the Sharingan

[@chazanishe]

I also heard Zauberflote in the bass. One of Papageno's themes.

[@big_ju1c391]

Mangekio

[@godlikesnake8909]

Her control on volume is astonishing

[@Shaan_Suri]

The way she shapes the larger phrases is just sublime. Such a light, sensitive touch, yet powerful when needed. Mastery 😍

[@teddobomb9037]

I feel like the way she moves her head and plays so passionately is how Mozart would have played too

[@Elarace]

extremely fast/constant staccato + soft playing+ going through octaves rapidly= a miracle (if your a pianist and you know you know)

[@HogbergPhotography]

Extremely fast training as well! She practiced for 40 hours per day, thats mind boggeling!

[@chitwoodbryan4HBVS]

I discovered Mitsuko uchida’s playing when I was in college. Her playing has always been exemplary to me.

[@michaelj1237]

Thanks so much for reminding us about the beauty of Mozart and Uchida’s performance thereof

[@ISEEKSPACE]

She transcended time and it shows! Beautiful!

[@ericvogler6909]

I've loved Mitsuko Uchida's playing for many years. Mozart just hits me differently when it's her playing it.

[@antonydevadass4856]

She bent space time itself to squeeze out another 16 hours in a day. Magnificent!

[@muchtartidakbahagia]

I swear jazz and classical musicians are some of the most skilled player in their respective instrument.

[@thepostapocalyptictrio4762]

THE BEST living performer of Schubert and Schoenberg pieces. Genius

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

This is when you have mastered complete control over the sound of every single note.

[@NancyinNYC]

There is nobody--absolutely nobody--more musical than Mitsuko Uchida. Seeing her live is a joy, btw.

[@ЛентяйЁпта]

Been to two of her concerts, incredible pianist

[@francobonanni3499]

She Is one of the major pianist in the world. She does not play she works. To play like she does there are hours of study. O love her expression she lives with the music she plays. Great artist. Many years to her health and playing.

[@MrNicks-gn8jc]

Her complete Mozart Sonatas recordings are legendary as the most romantic emotional readings ever recorded !

[@kevinmaestroful]

András Schiff's recordings of the Mozart sonatas are far better

[@diligenceeke3023]

@@kevinmaestroful You seem to be in the mood to argue. Hahaha

[@kevinmaestroful]

@@diligenceeke3023 just saying lol

[@kevinmaestroful]

@drz-krak Schiff is still alive 😉

[@kevinmaestroful]

@drz-krak Even Mozart didn't play perfectly, every true artist knows that in terms of ''perfection'' we're never there but always arriving ;)

[@wweraw4895]

Her sound control is simply outstanding

[@Alenoir88]

The synchronisation with the piano sheet is amazing, quite a good job doing that tracking, thumbs up!

[@CurlysChilledPiano]

Her touch and musicality could make a bag of bones sound beautiful.

[@dylanchannel2661]

idk a single thing about reading music i just think these videos are dope

[@sarahf.7750]

This performance gave me chills she's such a legend

[@starwalk3r]

Mitsuko plays brilliantly while playing a brilliant piece by Mozart.

[@minghaoliu430]

It’s so hard to control and she did wonderful at the trill part and she can manage the left hand with a very suitable diminueto was fantastic.

[@kiaruna]

One word. She is amazing.

[@LesserMoffHootkins]

That’s three words.

[@anatolydyatlov963]

One word would be: tapa

[@HLl564]

How they even remember all the notes is incredible.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

As someone who knows jack shit about classic pieces besides maybe Entry of the Gladiators or smth, this was absolutely beautiful. I love how playful the arpeggios or whatever the zigzagging piano notes are called sound! Thanks for bringing awareness to this performer George!

[@kyungsik]

Uchida’s Mozart is unparalleled

[@gabrielmm8441]

ngl, people who are this good at piano play it with their souls

[@axoid]

She's so dedicated she broke the spacetime continuum so she could practice more in a day.

[@atp1130]

The beauty and power to her playing is life affirming. She both honors the original composer yet outshines them and shows that she, though the conduit for the music, is an artist equal in skill to the greats. Bravo!

[@PastPerspectives3]

Indeed

[@Stoic_Serenity_52]

Very clean... The intonations of each note parts are very distinct from each other. Impressive 👍😀

[@HogbergPhotography]

Not as impressive as her practice that broke space and time though..

[@pyropianist]

Saw Uchida at the Boston Symphony Orchestra last month playing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto! I can't believe she is nearly 75 years old and still playing from memory! A hair under tempo on the flying octaves, but still one of the best interpreters of golden age classical music, especially those cantabile non legato runs.

[@PedroLopes-sz3tt]

@TwoSetGang 40 hours a day, Ling Ling Law at its finest!!

[@castlebravo6658]

20 hours a day per hand. Respect ✊ 🎹

[@Spitfire720]

This looks not too bad if I could find out how not to make my wrists so tense 😂

[@kempedkemp]

Hanon Virtuoso Pianist exercises for about an hour a day, will help. A good instructor who knows how to teach these exercises in invaluable! (I had one.) Wrist fluidity is very important and one of the focuses of this pedagogy.

[@HMPublish]

40 hours a day ... that's just soooo amazing!!!!

[@hakade5846]

...that was the longest day ever :D:D:D:D:D

[@marka1000]

This is a reference to TwoSetViolin's Ling Ling 40 hour workout/practice

[@axe_stump]

the trillolololol part is insane, wish she did a video teaching how she presses the keys at that part

[@ninetailedfox579121]

Amazing how this era of classical music is almost 300 years old and still going strong while every other genre of music rises and eventually will fade away. Really shows just how genius those old composers were and how blessed we are to have talented people like this woman to keep it alive.

[@cadeschmitz8334]

Also due to higher level education funneling musicians to play classical music and any other genre is not recognized

[@joshjoshjoshjoshjoshjoshj]

@@cadeschmitz8334 there’s a intro to hip hop class at my uni

[@cadeschmitz8334]

@@joshjoshjoshjoshjoshjoshj grad schools

[@cooldebt]

There’s also Cateen (Hayato Sumino) who bridges classical and jazz (plus city-soul on the side) - he has drawn a large number of young people to classical music. His livestreams are hour-long medleys and part of the fun is guessing which tune he is playing. And agree the classical composers were geniuses.

[@이상호-p3c]

Well this part is her composition. This is cadenza, which is blank in the music sheet for pianists to show his/her technique by himself

[@ValentinoMockingjay]

Her skill is so fast and perfected to the point where I can't even see her fingers stay in one place... Very Well.

[@takahashidai6951]

Even though this performance is a recording, it conveys to my heart the beauty of a shining star. So, if I listen to her performance live, the sound must be unbelievably beautiful.

[@LopsideMakes]

I love how the trauma of her sleepless nights comes out on her face.. emotion adds a lot more to music that you’ll ever know.

[@muxant_academy]

Absolute Beauty. Her standards for sound are top notch.

[@recordclassicalmusic]

That sounded amazing!! Thanks for sharing

[@Ermude10]

Wow, I practice 30 hours a day and I still can't play that well! I guess I need to increase the number of hours...

[@frankjohnson118]

she's so good that she can extend the days to be 40 hours long Instead of 24

[@ΦΡΑΝΣΟΥΑΖΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΙΔΟΥ]

😂

[@tragicmagic]

a true ling ling

[@squirreleatscorn]

@@tragicmagic indeed

[@lunarwolfcassia9435]

She is a true ling ling wannabe.

[@gmmgmmg]

Need more classical music videos on this amazing channel

[@Loveyoutheocean]

it's just so amazing. I'm gonna watch her performance for 40 hours a day. lingling 40 hours!!!!

[@Cherodar]

It's interesting, looking at the other comments here, how little overlap there seems to be between TwoSetters and this channel's viewers!

[@user-dy5rs3po2o]

How is it possible if the day has only 24 hours? A miracle indeed!

[@adanaamun7921]

Wow! She almost doubled the 24-hour threshold.

[@user-dy5rs3po2o]

How is it possible if the day has only 24 hours? A miracle indeed!

[@mateomaderas5504]

Love Mitsuko Uchida! She is truly one of the the very best.

[@Calebthecreator]

How are you related to Jacob collier? How do you transcribe? Do you have perfect pitch? Where can I suggest videos? What music do you listen to? Why are some videos not transcribed by you?

[@kevinmarrett9532]

I’d really love to see you do a transcription of a bluegrass guitarist doing a blisteringly fast break in something like Black Eyed Suzie, or Freeborn Man by Tony Rice. Something just insanely fast flatpicking.

[@phutureproof]

Anything by Johnny Hiland would be really cool too, or Molly Tutle!

[@ForLorNVuLgaR]

This is mind blowingly clean

[@nik_elektrik]

Recommendations: Her renditions of Schumann‘s „Kreisleriana“ and "Fantasie C-Dur op. 17". Watched her performing those at Hamburg‘s Elbphilharmonie. Breathtaking.

[@TheSummoner]

I might check out the Fantasie since it is a piece I already know and love ;)

[@TAP7a]

Concertos of Mozart's day were something akin to an entire gig on one song, just that the head is 10 minutes long and only one player has a proper solo

[@Ethan-jl1fj]

Waduhek? 👀

[@slowster2945]

That tremolo at the end nearly broke my hand just by listening to it.

[@KaoticJay]

She practiced so hard everyday that she made the earth turn slower so that it is physically possible to have 40 hours in a day. So inspiring!

[@johnjordan6032]

My god that’s absolutely amazing that she was able to pause time and practice an extra 16hrs in a 24hr day! That’s dedication!👏👏👏⏳🤖

[@pbasswil]

I'm not even into Mozart, but her articulation is _mesmerizing._

[@The1nonlySpadez]

THAT IS AMAZING SHE COULD PRACTICE 40 HOURS EVERY 24 HOURS!

[@user-dy5rs3po2o]

How is it possible if the day has only 24 hours? A miracle indeed!

[@beachcomber1505]

Quite enjoyable - I remember when I auditioned for a performance major on saxophone at San Francisco State way back in the early 80's - they didn't have a primarily saxophone player on staff at the time - instead I was auditioned by Donald Carrol who was principal clarinetist with the San Francisco symphony - he wore a suit and was very professional - I wore an army green field jacket - he said he would accept me into the program on the condition that I would agree to practice six hours a day - I was working full time and honestly answered I could not - that settled that