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Perceptions and perspectives: Alice Sara Ott’s Echoes of Life

Alice Sara Ott Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7th November 2021 The concept of the “album as playlist” has become increasingly popular with pianists. Víkingur Ólafsson’s DG disc juxtaposing music by Debussy and Rameau, for example, was an inspired way of highlighting … Continue reading

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Alice Sara Ott and Scheherazade both weave tales with the London Symphony Orchestra

Elim Chan/London Symphony Orchestra Barbican, 9th June 2019 What qualities make for a good storyteller? Someone with a captivating voice to draw in listeners. Someone who makes eye contact. Someone who brings a story alive through vivid characterisation, be it … Continue reading

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France 2 – 0 Finland: an uneven match under Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Philharmonia

Philharmonia/ Rouvali *** Royal Festival Hall, 24th January 2019 I’m not sure there is any record of Maurice Ravel ever meeting Jean Sibelius. One fears how the fastidious Frenchman might have got on with the alcoholic, cigar-puffing Finn as their … Continue reading

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Infernal Liszt: Alice Sara Ott, Antonio Pappano and a Faustian pact

Liszt: LSO/ Pappano **** Barbican, 26th November 2017 In all honesty, Goethe could have been referring to Liszt’s Faust Symphony which – at around seventy minutes – can feel like a very long work of art indeed. It formed the bloated climax … Continue reading

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Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading

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