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Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto is every inch the warhorse asScheherazade, yet with Ott there was never a sense of routine.

In which Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Gothenburg Symphony seek out a contrast with the dark sound colours of Sibelius.

Maurice Ravel met Jean Sibelius at the Royal Festival Hall for a programme to which each composer contributed a waltz, but the musical terrain was anything but a level playing field. 

The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra make Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony sound like new, while Alice Sara Ott’s joy in playing Mozart is palpable.  

Pianist Alice Sara Ott and the Dresden Philharmonic at the Cologne Philharmonic

The Faust Symphony formed the bloated climax of a demonic date with the Grim Reaper, who loomed large over Sir Antonio Pappano's “Total Liszt” programme with the LSO.

Mason Bates' homage to the Silicon Valley geeks; Alice Sara Ott takes over Tchaikovsky.

Warhorse (noun): creaky old classic played by orchestras in their sleep at least once a season.  There was absolutely no snoozing, however, through Alice Sara Ott's startling performance with the Philharmonia.

Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Basel Symphony Orchestra in idiosyncratic Les Six, and portentous Holst, while Alice Sara Ott provides exuberant Ravel. 

This superb concert deserved a full house, but there were more bodies on the platform for the Rite of Spring than listeners in the front stalls.

A starry night at the Hollywood Bowl for Gustavo Dudamel, Alice Sara Ott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley and the LA Phil to perform Mozart.

The Rite of Spring provides the centrepiece of Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano's "Scandale" programme, an often fatiguing programme, but thrillingly performed. 

A whiff of sulphur shrouded the Barbican this evening as Liszt met Mahler beneath the Mephistophelean glare of Gianandrea Noseda. Sparks flew. 

Going to a concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge reminds me of listening to the old recording of Sviatoslav Richter and Andrei Gavrilov playing Handel’s keyboard suites. It sounds a bit like they were playing in a hotel lobby: teacups clink, throats are cleared, glasses smash, and the occasional telephone lingers unanswered.

Bei ihrem Auftritt mit François-Xavier Roth trafen die Musiker bei Ravel und Dukas in Mark und Bein, bis sie bei Debussy den Himmel teilten und über Wasser gingen.

L'intégrité de la musique de Beethoven a été atteinte par ce concert "symphoniconumérique" loin de servir son objectif de désacralisation de la musique classique. 

Nikolaj Znaider und Alice Sara Ott machen sich mit den Münchner Philharmonikern auf die Suche nach den Geheimnissen eines Programms, das von Brahms über Liszt bis Elgar reichte.