Rising star Alice Sara Otts new recording documents her summer 2012 rite of passage debut at the prestigious White Nights Festival. Alice Sara Otts challenging programme centers upon Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition. Her virtuosic technique and youthful brilliance deliver the majesty, colours and spontaneity that this music requires. The power, passion and beauty which Alice Sara brings to Schuberts thrilling Sonata No. 17 is insightful and memorable. Her stellar career coincides with the enthusiastic international acclaim her Deutsche Grammophon recordings and performances garner. As the Guardian writes: ... it was good to hear live the qualities that shine through on Otts recordings the crystalline tone and prodigious range of colour, the perfectly even, crisp technique ...