Alice Sara Ott—Echoes Of Life
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Palau de la Música Catalana C/ Palau de la Música 4-6, 08003 Barcelona
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Alice Sara Ott, one of today’s most outstanding pianists, makes a return visit to the auditorium, this time to perform a solo recital. This former child prodigy has established herself as a mature artist of the utmost sincerity and authenticity. As she herself says, “I play as I feel at any given moment, so I don’t find it contradictory to perform certain works again and again at different times in my life.”
Having recorded an album of music by Chopin for Deutsche Grammophon a decade or so ago, when she was in her early 20s, she has now returned to the challenges of his music with a project entitled Echoes of Life. Her program is based on the 24 Préludes op. 28, a central work of the piano repertoire and one which encompasses a sweeping emotional range. She intersperses the preludes with short 20th-century works by composers such as Rota and Pärt, with the aim of offering a personal reflection on the thoughts that influence and change our lives: “In interpreting music from composers who, in their own time, challenged the system and redefined music, I see it as my role as a classical musician to carry this spirit forward by not insisting on reproducing bygone traditions and limitations.”
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