Alice Sara Ott - Pictures (2013) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Rising star Alice Sara Ott’s new recording documents her summer 2012 rite of passage debut at the prestigious White Nights Festival. Alice Sara Ott’s challenging programme centers upon Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and her virtuosic technique and youthful brilliance deliver the majesty, colours and spontaneity that this music requires. The power, passion and beauty which Alice Sara brings to Schubert’s thrilling Sonata No. 17 is insightful and memorable. Her stellar career coincides with the enthusiastic international acclaim her Deutsche Grammophon recordings and performances garner. As the Guardian writes: “… it was good to hear live the qualities that shine through on Ott’s recordings – the crystalline tone and prodigious range of colour, the perfectly even, crisp technique …”

'Alice Sara Ott's interpretation of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' captures almost an entire orchestra's worth of musical colour and emotion in this live album… each movement, representing different moments on a journey round a gallery, is full of personality – and Mussorgsky's well-known tunes are second to none… [the exuberant Schubert sonata]: a wide range of musical moments… the music shows off the best of Schubert's compositional talents, captured by a brilliant young pianist. Alice Sara Ott's effortless characterisation ensures this musical roller coaster of an album is thrilling at every turn.' (John Suchet, Classic FM, London)

Tracklist:
01. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Promenade (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
02. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Gnomus (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
03. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Promenade (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
04. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Il vecchio castello (Live)
05. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Promenade (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
06. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Tuileries (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
07. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Bydlo (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
08. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Promenade (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
09. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Ballet Of The Unhatched Chicks (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
10. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Samuel Goldenburg And Schmuyle (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
11. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Promenade (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
12. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-The Market-place At Limoges (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
13. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
14. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-Cum mortuis in lingua morta (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
15. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-The Hut On Chicken's Legs (Baba-Yaga) (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
16. Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition-The Bogatyr Gate At Kiev (Live)
17. Schubert: Piano Sonata No.17 In D, D.850-1. Allegro vivace (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
18. Schubert: Piano Sonata No.17 In D, D.850-2. Con moto (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
19. Schubert: Piano Sonata No.17 In D, D.850-3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)
20. Schubert: Piano Sonata No.17 In D, D.850-4. Rondo (Allegro moderato) (Live At Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg / 2012)

Personnel:
Alice Sara Ott, piano