Echoes Of Life
Alice Sara Ott
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Pianist Alice Sara Ott offers a complete set of Chopin's preludes for piano here, in order, but framed and interspersed with short contemporary piano compositions. These appear at the beginning and end (the latter composed by Ott) and then after each group of four preludes. The concept isn't one that Chopin or Liszt would have found too unfamiliar, and Ott is a strong Chopin pianist with the ability to draw listeners in without being excessive about tempo rubato. Try one of the famous pieces like the Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4, which has a fresh feeling despite the work's ubiquity. Ott suggests extramusical associations for both the Chopin pieces and the modern works, and while, of course, her reactions are her own, it may be that this device works a bit less well for the preludes than for Chopin's works in other genres. More than other Chopin works, the preludes are intricately technical pieces, with some of the most daring harmonic moves in the whole Chopin canon. In this technical sense, though, Ott's program succeeds beautifully. In her hands, the range of Chopin's influence in the 20th century is revealed to be startlingly wide, extending from the cinematic semi-pop of Nino Rota and Chilly Gonzales to Ligeti's modernism to Arvo Pärt's minimalism. The whole program has a delightful sense that one is exploring Chopin and then pausing periodically to look forward in time as if to see what hidden secrets time might reveal in his music. A typically imaginative release from this fine pianist.
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Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Francesco Tristano, Composer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
24 Preludes, Op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Musica ricercata (György Ligeti)
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
24 Preludes, Op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Nino Rota, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - CHILLY GONZALES, Composer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Litany (In Memory of Michael Vyner) (Töru Takemitsu)
Toru Takemitsu, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
24 Preludes, Op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Arvo Pärt, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Alice Sara Ott, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album Description
Pianist Alice Sara Ott offers a complete set of Chopin's preludes for piano here, in order, but framed and interspersed with short contemporary piano compositions. These appear at the beginning and end (the latter composed by Ott) and then after each group of four preludes. The concept isn't one that Chopin or Liszt would have found too unfamiliar, and Ott is a strong Chopin pianist with the ability to draw listeners in without being excessive about tempo rubato. Try one of the famous pieces like the Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4, which has a fresh feeling despite the work's ubiquity. Ott suggests extramusical associations for both the Chopin pieces and the modern works, and while, of course, her reactions are her own, it may be that this device works a bit less well for the preludes than for Chopin's works in other genres. More than other Chopin works, the preludes are intricately technical pieces, with some of the most daring harmonic moves in the whole Chopin canon. In this technical sense, though, Ott's program succeeds beautifully. In her hands, the range of Chopin's influence in the 20th century is revealed to be startlingly wide, extending from the cinematic semi-pop of Nino Rota and Chilly Gonzales to Ligeti's modernism to Arvo Pärt's minimalism. The whole program has a delightful sense that one is exploring Chopin and then pausing periodically to look forward in time as if to see what hidden secrets time might reveal in his music. A typically imaginative release from this fine pianist.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 31 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:29
- Main artists: Alice Sara Ott
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
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24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo
© 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin ℗ 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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