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German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott is a performer who appears to care more about the score and the composer than about her image and interpretations. After promoting Lang-Lang, a pianist of maximal technique but debatable taste, DG has given Ott an exclusive recording contract, and her first release, the complete waltzes of Chopin, shows her to be a pianist of taste and restraint. That is not to say that her performances here are ever less than dazzling, because she plays with supreme ease, or any less than affecting, because she brings out everything in the scores, from sparkling wit to darkest melancholy. But Ott is not interested in demonstrating her technique or in grandstanding her interpretations. Everything here is in the score: the tender countermelodies, the long legato phrasing, the exquisite harmonic balances, and the lilting rubato. It sounds fresh and natural because Ott herself seems fresh and natural, and apparently not at all a showoff. Though by no means the greatest performances of the waltzes ever recorded -- Dinu Lipatti's EMI recording is now and likely always will be the most beautiful, the most masterful, and the most moving version of these works -- Ott's recording is well worth hearing by anyone who loves the music. The sound of DG's digital recording is limpid.
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Waltz No.1 in E flat, Op.18 -'Grande valse brillante' (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.2 in A flat, Op.34 No.1 - 'Valse brillante' (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.3 in A minor, Op.34 No.2 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.4 in F, Op.34 No.3 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.5 in A flat, Op.42 - 'Grande valse' (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.6 in D flat, Op.64 No.1 -'Minute' (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.7 in C sharp minor, Op.64 No.2 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.8 in A flat, Op.64 No.3 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.9 in A flat, Op.69 No.1 -'Farewell' (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.10 in B minor, Op.69 No.2 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.11 in G flat, Op.70 No.1 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.12 in F minor/A flat, Op.70 No.2 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz No.13 in D flat, Op.70 No.3 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz In A Flat Opus Posth. Kk4A No.13 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz In E Flat Opus Posth. Kk4b No.10 - Sostenuto (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz In E Flat Opus Posth. Kk4A No.14 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz In E Opus Posth. Kk4A No.12 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz In E Minor Opus Posth. Kk4A No.15 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Waltz In A Minor Opus Posth. Kk4B No.11 - Allegretto (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Nocturne No.20 in C sharp minor, Op.posth. (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Christian Leins, Producer - Evert Menting, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott is a performer who appears to care more about the score and the composer than about her image and interpretations. After promoting Lang-Lang, a pianist of maximal technique but debatable taste, DG has given Ott an exclusive recording contract, and her first release, the complete waltzes of Chopin, shows her to be a pianist of taste and restraint. That is not to say that her performances here are ever less than dazzling, because she plays with supreme ease, or any less than affecting, because she brings out everything in the scores, from sparkling wit to darkest melancholy. But Ott is not interested in demonstrating her technique or in grandstanding her interpretations. Everything here is in the score: the tender countermelodies, the long legato phrasing, the exquisite harmonic balances, and the lilting rubato. It sounds fresh and natural because Ott herself seems fresh and natural, and apparently not at all a showoff. Though by no means the greatest performances of the waltzes ever recorded -- Dinu Lipatti's EMI recording is now and likely always will be the most beautiful, the most masterful, and the most moving version of these works -- Ott's recording is well worth hearing by anyone who loves the music. The sound of DG's digital recording is limpid.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:05
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alice Sara Ott
- Composer: Frédéric Chopin
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
- Collection: First Release
© 2010 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin ℗ 2010 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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