Mitsuko Uchida (CD) by Mitsuko Uchida (piano), English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

This volume of the Great Pianists series devotes one entire disc to Mozart, including the early Concerto in E-flat and the late Sonata in D major, but the real revelation is the set of 12 Debussy Etudes that occupies most of disc two, arguably Uchida's finest recording as well as the best these remarkable pieces have ever received. Considering that she just began to record Schubert in 1998 and Beethoven in 1999, it would seem that Mitsuko Uchida could be one of the great pianists of the 21st century, too.