Kazuki Yamada & Alice Sara Ott: Grieg, Debussy, Ives & Clyne

Kazuki Yamada launches his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at the Philharmonie with an irresistible programme of rich contrasts. We begin with the unsettling uncertainty of Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question before moving on to the grand Romantic sweep of Grieg’s ever-popular Piano Concerto – with the remarkable Alice Sara Ott as soloist. The second half begins with a new work, Anna Clyne’s vividly imagined Woman of the Mountain (here receiving its German premiere), before Yamada unleashes the full colours of the orchestra in the bracing, expansive soundscapes of Debussy’s La mer.