Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
Performer: Alice Sara Ott
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4835187
Release: 2018
Size: 1.06 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Debussy: Rêverie
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
02. 1. Prélude
03. 2. Menuet
04. 3. Clair de lune
05. 4. Passepied
Satie: Six Gnossiennes
06. 1. Lent
Satie: Trois Gymnopédies
07. 1. Lent et douloureux
Satie: Six Gnossiennes
08. 3. Lent
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
09. 1. Ondine
10. 2. Le Gibet
11. 3. Scarbo
12. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
For all of Ott’s attractive shadings and half tints in ‘Ondine’, other pianists bring more consistent clarity to the main chord ostinato pattern…Amazingly enough, however, Ott’s carefully calibrated nuances and balances and hypnotic sense of long line prove gripping on their own terms.
Opening with Debussy’s Rêverie and Suite bergamasque, both products of the composer’s early, evanescent magic, Ott is poised and with a sense of occasion in the former, witty and affectionate in the latter. Finally Ott returns us to her opening calm, playing Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte with a haunting sense of dignity and beauty. DG’s sound is superb and their promotion includes no fewer than six pictures of their very photogenic pianist.
