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MOZART: THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS (Philips). Crisp, elegant pianism from Japanese-born Mitsuko Uchida...
...lineage-to know that nationalism is, as he says, "an incurable disease." His mother was an ivory-skinned Japanese girl who forswore the Orient to follow the Count's father to an estate in Bohemia. When her husband died, leaving her with seven children, the amazing Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi proved her Europeanization and her internationalization by administering the family estates and raising her brood as citizens of the "dual" Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs...