Alas, most Asian classical musicians are clockwork dolls figuratively speaking with ruthless stage mothers and fathers pushing them to practice constantly. It's just depressing. Asian cultures, sort of like Germany, tend to exaggerate the work ethic to brutal and inhuman degrees. But most piano concertos and sonatas are overrated anyway, and that is primarily what they play, so it doesn't matter for me, who cares about another rendition of the Schumann Piano Concerto. There are probably fifty Palestrina masses left to record!
Yeah, Uchida is genuinely talented, much more unique than most Asian musicians, though a little wacky. The conductor Kent Nagano doesn't appear to be stereotypically machine-like.