Beethoven : Sonates pour piano n° 3 et 21. Ott.

Piano International (Jan, 2012)
To judge from some reviews already in print, Alice Sara Ott, only 21 when she recorded this disc, should have obeyed the unwritten rule young pianists generally follow when recording Beethoven: wait until you reach the age of 30. That’s what Lipatti, Pollini, Ashkenazy (with one exception about which he does not like to be reminded) and countless others have done. They know that that if you record Beethoven too early in your career, your efforts will always be compared unfavorably with those of others.

If, like some of this disc’s other reviewers, you listen to it with the sound of Richter, Solomon, Gilels or Brendel in your ears, you will …