Pianist Mitsuko Uchida

>> The highlight of the upcoming week’s schedule has to be the recital by pianist Mitsuko Uchida on Wednesday night (April 21, 8 pm), sponsored by Washington Performing Arts Society in the Music Center at Strathmore. Now in her 60s and actively recording some fine material, Uchida will play music by two composers known as her specialties, Mozart and Schumann.

>> The Quatuor Diotima, an adventurous French string quartet, returns to La Maison Francaise on Monday night (April 19, 7:30 p.m.), for a program of quartets by Thomas Larcher (b. 1963) and Ravel, as well as works by François Sarhan (b. 1972) and Gérard Pesson (b. 1958).

>> The Emerson String Quartet will play a concert next Sunday (April 25, 6 p.m.) at the National Museum of Natural History, with music by Barber and Beethoven, as well as a new string quartet by Lawrence Dillon.

MAKE IT FREE:
>> Free with admission to the Phillips Collection on Sunday is a recital (April 25, 4 p.m.) by pianist Ivan Ilić. He will play some of Leopold Godowsky’s arrangements of the Chopin études.

>> Vocal Arts Society, now known as Vocal Arts DC, hosts a free concert in its Discovery Series, a recital by sopranos Jennifer Holbrook and Aundi Marie Moore on Wednesday (April 21, 7:30 p.m.) at Friendship Heights Village Center in Chevy Chase, Md.

>> The Paratore Brothers, who are a piano duo, will play a free recital on Sunday (April 25, 6:30 p.m.) at the National Gallery of Art.