Name: Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano: Two Pianos
Start: 2024-05-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Admin

Southbank Centre

Instrumentalist

Alice Sara Ott

Piano I

Francesco Tristano

Piano II

Pianist

Piano

Singer

Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano: Two Pianos

London

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano: Two Pianos: A Soft Shell Groove for 2 pianos Tristano (+6 More)

Public

A Soft Shell Groove for 2 pianos

Serpentina

In the beginning was

Trois Gymnopédies

Toccate e partite d'intavolatura, Libro 1

Toccata

Boléro for 2 pianos (arr. Francesco Tristano)

Approved

South Bank Centre

‘Tristano’s A Soft Shell Groove … with its foot-tapping (literally) rhythm, is bound to find many friends among listeners’

Gramophone
We’re treated to the intimate music-making and sonic dazzle of this celebrated piano duo in a joyous selection of French music and works by Tristano himself.


Alice Sara Ott, one of our Resident Artists for Spring/Summer 2024, and the composer-pianist Francesco Tristano have been winning audience’s hearts with their concerts and recordings, called ‘enthralling’ by Bachtrack.

Performing both separately and together in this concert, the pair exchange musical inspirations ranging from Frescobaldi’s baroque delights in his variations on ‘La Folia’ to the austere beauty of Satie and the hypnotic repetitions of Ravel’s Boléro in Tristano’s arrangement, which ‘drives to its climax in a wild torrent of clusters and glissandi' in the words of The Guardian.

Alongside all of this, the two pianists showcase Tristano’s original music, which features spare and spacious writing that effortlessly cuts through across multiple genres and borrows ‘the loops and layers of deep house’ (The Guardian).

‘A journey of discovery by two talented, wide-eyed young artists’

Classical.Net
‘Finger-crunching pianism’

Bachtrack

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

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