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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Alice Sara Ott; Francesco Tristano - Scandale


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Composer: Igor Stravinsky; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Maurice Ravel; Francesco Tristano
  1. Tristano - A Soft Shell Groove
  2. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring, Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth
  3. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring, Part 2: The Sacrifice
  4. Rimsky-Korsakov - The Story of the Kalendar Prince (from Scheherazade, Op. 35)
  5. Ravel - La Valse

Alice Sara Ott, piano
Francesco Tristano, piano

Date: 2014
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4793541

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Review

The disc’s title and raison d’être escape me: ‘Scandale’ says the cover in shocking pink. The ‘Rite of Spring’ premiere is presumably the eponymous ‘scandale’, but Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade? Ravel’s La valse? Rimsky’s widow objected fiercely to Diaghilev using the former as a ballet and Ravel never spoke to the impresario again after he refused to turn it into a ballet. Hardly scandals. The booklet bleats about both performers being ‘keen to return to a starting point that is free from expectations and in doing so they allow themselves – scandalously so – to create something entirely new’.

Better to ignore such waffle and enjoy these dance pieces at face value, the performances and recording of which are terrific. If it is hard to forget Stravinsky’s orchestration, the sections of motoric rhythm in his two-piano version of The Rite seem made for the percussive character of the instrument, while some of the slower passages reveal more so than in their original garb the challenging harmonic language that so provoked the first audiences. ‘The Kalender Prince’ by Stravinsky’s teacher in his own duet version provides lyrical contrast before La valse, deftly, brilliantly executed, the final pages more dogged and relentless than the increasingly frantic view taken by the thrilling Argerich and her many different waltzing partners. The final piece is the world premiere of Tristano’s A Soft Shell Groove which, with its foot-tapping (literally) rhythm, is bound to find many friends among listeners and other two-piano teams.

-- Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/d/dgg793541a.php
http://www.allmusic.com/album/scandale-mw0002677258
https://www.amazon.com/Scandale-Alice-Sara-Ott/dp/B00JRNGCWQ

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Alice Sara Ott (born August 1, 1988 in Munich) is a German classical pianist. She started piano lessons when she was four. From the age of twelve, she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Ott has won awards at a number of piano competitions, including first prize at the 2004 Pianello Val Tidone Competition. She has made seven recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and performing concert tours in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Sara_Ott
http://www.alicesaraott.com/

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