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I find myself going to the Mozart piano concerti again, and recently had the astonishing, and quite unexpected, gift of having been given them again after several rather serious upheavals in my life. These are the Mozart piano concerti that I turned to. And how often does one get to hear the d minor concerto fresh? Or Mozart's clarinet quintet? Or the Goldberg Variations? Very nice icing on the cake.I have various versions of many of these: Serkin, de la Roccha, the excellent Perahia, of course; and Richard Goode is not to be sneezed at. That said, I prefer Ms. Uchida's. Bach's death in 1750 occasioned the steep decline of polyphony, although one hears it, from time to time, down the centuries. But Ms. Uchida seems to bring out the left hand more than other interpreters. Perhaps she's sensitive to it, or perhaps she's left-handed; I suffer, or am glad of, sinistrality myself. She brings out the tag-team action between the hands, showing the music in a new light entirely.It's the pleasure of having a new phrase in an old warhorse played in a way which limns the rest of the piece in a new and fresh way.I've converted several people, among them my father, to the Mozart piano concerti with these; they reside in my house, my car, my Mac, and my iPod. But I must ration them; after all I'll never get to hear them new more than twice. I am told, on good authority, that the third time would kill me.