Full throttle: finger crunching pianism at the QEH

Por Mark Pullinger, 12 junio 2015

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“As she left the platform, Ott checked her fingertips… I suspect for blood”

Crítica hecha desde Queen Elizabeth Hall, Londres el 11 junio 2015

Ravel, Bolero (arr. tristano for 2 pianos)

Debussy, 3 Nocturnes (transcr. Ravel for 2 pianos)

Ravel, La Valse

Tristano, A Soft Shell Groove Suite

Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (La consagración de la primavera) (for 2 pianos)

Alice Sara Ott, Piano

Francesco Tristano, Piano

Sobrecogedora Alice Sara Ott con la LSO en el Auditorio Nacional

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 25th October

En la segunda velada en Madrid, la LSO estrenó una brillante obra de Kendall y contó con la presencia incontestable de Alice Sara Ott.

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Top drawer French music from Ott, Bloch and the LSO

Roy Westbrook, 27th November

Debussy and Ravel frame a performance of Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra as Alexandre Bloch guests with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Jaap van Zweden prend énergiquement les rênes du Philhar'

Pierre Michel, 19th October

À l'exception d'un Concerto en sol de Ravel délicat voire discret avec Alice Sara Ott, l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France a livré un concert tonitruant sous la baguette de son directeur musical désigné.

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Polished Ravel x 2 from Alice Sara Ott with the Chicago Symphony

Graham Meyer, 25th September

Three hands for two concertos: Alice Sara Ott joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand and the Piano Concerto in G major.

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Alice Sara Ott's Field and Beethoven delights in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 27th February

A fine and sensitive pianist, Alice Sara Ott captivates with Field Nocturnes and Beethoven sonatas at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

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Karina Canellakis and Alice Sara Ott make memorable NY Phil debuts

Susan Stempleski, 4th April

The American conductor and German-Japanese pianist shine in a mostly meditative program of Webern, Strauss, Ravel and Scriabin.

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Full throttle: finger crunching pianism from Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano at the QEH