La Valse: Alice Sara Ott & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

About the Event

Celebrate the new year on your toes, with a dance‐themed evening of flashing eyes, seductive rhythms and pure imagination. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined by star‐pianist Alice Sara Ott under the baton of Alan Buribayev in a programme featuring works by Brahms, Liszt, Prokofiev and Ravel.

The RLPO is delighted to introduce the charismatic young Kazakh conductor Alan Buribayev to Liverpool in a programme that begins with the flying fiddles of Brahms’s popular Hungarian Dances, and ends in the haunted ballroom of Ravel’s decadent La Valse. In between comes Prokofiev’s enchanting fairy‐tale ballet – composed in Alan Buribayev’s home town of Almaty! – and the Liverpool debut of Alice Sara Ott, the young German pianist whose playing has been called “perfect”. Expect her to find all the fantasy – as well as the fireworks – in Liszt’s devilish First Piano Concerto.

Choose from the wide variety of high‐calibre concerts offered in Liverpool this season.