Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano - Scandale (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

For her new recording rising star Alice Sara Ott teams up with Francesco Tristano, who is a guarantor for highly innovative projects. Fascinated from the idea of Ballets Russes their challenging programme for two pianos centers upon Stravinsky’s extremely rhythmic and avant-garde score of “The rite of spring”, the crowning success de scandale of Ballets Russes and includes the catchy tune of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade”.

The album features an exciting new composition by Francesco Tristano himself 'A soft shell groove', which has never been recorded before.

No ballet company influenced the 20th-century intellectual world as did Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, with its signature conceptualization of dance, music and the fine arts as equal partners in a unified art form.

Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes became one of the most influential ballet companies of the 20th century, in part because of its ground-breaking artistic collaboration among contemporary choreographers, composers, artists, and dancers.

TRACKLIST

Francesco Tristano Schlimé ('1981)

A Soft Shell Groove (World-Premiere Recording)
01. A Soft Shell Groove (7:07)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

The Rite of Spring - Version For Piano Duet (Published 1913)
02. Part 1: The Adoration Of The Earth (16:07)
03. Part 2: The Sacrifice (17:50)

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Scheherazade, Op.35 (arr. for four hands)
04. The Story Of The Calender Prince (8:53)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

La Valse (Choreographic Poem) - Version For Piano Duet
05. La Valse (12:01)

PERSONNEL
Alice Sara Ott, piano
Francesco Tristano, piano