Kirin Uchida Heaven (2021)

The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with industrial rock, blues, progressive rock, and Middle Eastern music influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media.

In perusing CDs of Mozart's sonatas for piano and violin, a lot can be guessed in advance by noticing which performer is featured prominently, and who is relegated to second place.

Following two albums of inimitable, challenging pop music that garnered global acclaim and marked Kirin J Callinan as a singularly unique talent, it is ironically singing other peoples’ songs that felt like the most truthful next step for Kirin as an artist. On Return To Center, Callinan’s trademark flamboyance is cut with a newfound fragility that comes curled up in an attempt to do justice to the songs he holds nearest and dearest.

A disciple of Wilhelm Kempff and Stefan Askenase, pianist Mitsuko Uchida waited until she was a respectable age to record Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, a legendary work by pianists on a par with J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations for harpsichordists. But pianists are luckier than the latter since they appropriate any music written for keyboards.

Mitsuko Uchida is a thoughtful and iconoclastic pianist who has also found success as a conductor. Highly esteemed for her interpretations, her repertoire spans the Classical to Modern periods. While Uchida's interpretations generally sound fresh and spontaneous, these characteristics arise from reasoned and deliberate musical choices. Far from prolific, she is always thought-provoking. She is active as a recitalist, accompanist, and chamber musician, and she has been a soloist and guest conductor with orchestras throughout the world. Uchida was born in Atami, Japan, near Tokyo, on December 20, 1948. She began her piano studies during childhood.

Prior to his appointments with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia, Robert was invited to perform as Associate Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2005–2006 season.

With mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and pianist Mitsuko Uchida, two world stars join hands on L’extase, a collection of songs by Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen.

Two masterful Schubert interpreters, tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Mitsuko Uchida record Schubert's Schwanengesang and Beethoven's 'An Die Ferne Geliebte' for the first time. With a lifetime of experience with this music, Uchida and Padmore are the perfect duo to interpret this magnificent repertoire.