Echoes of life
For her tenth Deutsche Grammophon release, pianist Alice Sara Ott returns to the music of Frederic Chopin. She approaches Chopin's 24 Preludes opus 28 from a fresh perspective, finding a personal thread that parallels the music's dramatic arc and wide-ranging moods. The pianist frames the Preludes within a contemporary context by interspersing them with seven works by 20th- and 21st-century composers. The thought-provoking yet emotionally and mus...