Product Review

Following the success of her previous Deutsche Grammophon recordings, Alice Sara Ott embraces two masterworks of piano literature: Beethoven's Sonatas in C major, reflecting different phases of the composer's life.

Both C major sonatas on this album have been in Alice Sara Ott's repertoire since her early teens and she feels that recording them now is testimony to her regard for Beethoven and of her ability to present a personal and artistic statement of these works

Sonata op. 2 no. 3, written when Beethoven was in his mid-twenties, is full of youthful spirit, wit, and force. The "Waldstein" op. 53 was composed in his thirties when Beethoven was struggling with impending deafness

Additionally, Alice Sara Ott selected the fierce Rondo "Rage over a Lost Penny," dating from Sonata op. 2's time, and the beautiful Andante favori, originally written as the "Waldstein"'s slow movement