London Philharmonic Orchestra: Uchida plays Mozart

Gustav Mahler’s last word was ‘Mozart’, but he’d already said his farewells in music, and nowhere more movingly than in Das Lied von der Erde: six impassioned songs that distil every last drop of life’s sorrow and sweetness. Some say it’s the greatest symphony he never wrote; and with soloists of the calibre of Dame Sarah Connolly and Stuart Skelton, Vladimir Jurowski will drive straight for its heart. With its mixture of sunshine and shadow, Mozart’s own final piano concerto makes a wonderfully appropriate upbeat. No living pianist plays this music with more poetry than Mitsuko Uchida.