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Spectacular Tchaikovsky: Alice Sara Ott fires up an old warhorse

By Mark Pullinger, 18 November 2016
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Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 17 November 2016
Programme
Borodin, Prince Igor: Overture
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 1 in D minor, Op.13
Performers
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor
Alice Sara Ott, Piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
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Alexander Porfiryevich BorodinAlice Sara OttPhilharmonia OrchestraPiano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, Op.23Prince Igor: OverturePyotr Ilyich TchaikovskySergei RachmaninovSymphony no. 1 in D minor, Op.13Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Mark Pullinger
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.