Alice Sara Ott – Echoes Of Life (Deluxe Edition) (2021/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alice Sara Ott – Echoes Of Life (Deluxe Edition) (2021/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:29:18 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Alice Sara Ott presents a new deluxe version of the successful Echoes of Life album, set for release on 27 October. Among the 11 newly recorded tracks complementing the original album are the famous Bach Prelude in C Major both on a grand piano and a specifically prepared upright piano, as well as Silvestrov’s Distant Music, Chopin Preludes and a new composition by Alice’s friend Chilly Gonzales. The album is now available for pre-order alongside the second pre-release track ‘Silvestrov: Distant Music’.

Pianist Alice Sara Ott offers a complete set of Chopin’s preludes for piano here, in order, but framed and interspersed with short contemporary piano compositions. These appear at the beginning and end (the latter composed by Ott) and then after each group of four preludes. The concept isn’t one that Chopin or Liszt would have found too unfamiliar, and Ott is a strong Chopin pianist with the ability to draw listeners in without being excessive about tempo rubato. Try one of the famous pieces like the Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4, which has a fresh feeling despite the work’s ubiquity. Ott suggests extramusical associations for both the Chopin pieces and the modern works, and while, of course, her reactions are her own, it may be that this device works a bit less well for the preludes than for Chopin’s works in other genres. More than other Chopin works, the preludes are intricately technical pieces, with some of the most daring harmonic moves in the whole Chopin canon. In this technical sense, though, Ott’s program succeeds beautifully. In her hands, the range of Chopin’s influence in the 20th century is revealed to be startlingly wide, extending from the cinematic semi-pop of Nino Rota and Chilly Gonzales to Ligeti’s modernism to Arvo Pärt’s minimalism. The whole program has a delightful sense that one is exploring Chopin and then pausing periodically to look forward in time as if to see what hidden secrets time might reveal in his music. A typically imaginative release from this fine pianist.

Tracklist:
1-01. Alice Sara Ott – Tristano: In The Beginning Was (04:16)
1-02. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 1 in C Major. Agitato (00:36)
1-03. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 2 in A Minor. Lento (02:44)
1-04. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 3 in G Major. Vivace (00:57)
1-05. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor. Largo (02:13)
1-06. Alice Sara Ott – Musica ricercata: I. Sostenuto. Misurato. Prestissimo (02:26)
1-07. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 5 in D Major. Molto allegro (00:40)
1-08. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 6 in B Minor. Lento assai (02:09)
1-09. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 7 in A Major. Andantino (00:42)
1-10. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 8 in F Sharp Minor. Molto agitato (01:58)
1-11. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 9 in E Major. Largo (01:58)
1-12. Alice Sara Ott – Rota: Valzer (02:51)
1-13. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 10 in C Sharp Minor. Molto allegro (00:33)
1-14. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 11 in B Major. Vivace (00:39)
1-15. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 12 in G Sharp Minor. Presto (01:28)
1-16. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 13 in F Sharp Minor. Lento (02:54)
1-17. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 14 in E Flat Minor. Allegro (00:30)
1-18. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D Flat Major. Sostenuto “Raindrop” (06:19)
1-19. Alice Sara Ott – Gonzales: Prelude in C Sharp Major (03:02)
1-20. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 16 in B Flat Minor. Presto con fuoco (01:16)
1-21. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 17 in A Flat Major. Allegretto (03:54)
1-22. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 18 in C Minor. Molto allegro (00:59)
1-23. Alice Sara Ott – Litany (In Memory of Michael Vyner): I. Adagio (04:53)
1-24. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 19 in E Flat Major. Vivace (01:26)
1-25. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 20 in C Minor. Largo (01:37)
1-26. Alice Sara Ott – Pärt: Für Alina (02:12)
1-27. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 21 in B Flat Major. Cantabile (02:13)
1-28. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 22 in G Minor. Molto agitato (00:47)
1-29. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 23 in F Major. Moderato (00:46)
1-30. Alice Sara Ott – 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 24 in D Minor. Allegro appassionato (02:43)
1-31. Alice Sara Ott – Ott: Lullaby To Eternity (on fragments of W.A. Mozart’s “Lacrimosa”) (02:48)
1-32. Alice Sara Ott – The Well-Tempered Clavier / Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude (Grand Piano) (01:36)
1-33. Alice Sara Ott – Field: Prelude in C Minor (Grand Piano) (00:38)
1-34. Alice Sara Ott – Field: Largo in C Minor (Grand Piano) (01:48)
1-35. Alice Sara Ott – Chopin: Prelude in A-Flat Major, KK IVb/7 (00:49)
1-36. Alice Sara Ott – Chopin: Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45 (05:17)
1-37. Alice Sara Ott – Gonzales: Contretemps (03:01)
1-38. Alice Sara Ott – Naive Music: No. 6, Prelude (02:06)
1-39. Alice Sara Ott – Distant Music: No. 3, Prelude (04:51)
1-40. Alice Sara Ott – Field: Prelude in C Minor (Upright Piano) (00:40)
1-41. Alice Sara Ott – Field: Largo in C Minor (Upright Piano) (01:57)
1-42. Alice Sara Ott – The Well-Tempered Clavier / Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude (Upright Piano) (01:43)

Download: