In the video below, she plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, an early work rooted in the classical style. But in 1797, Beethoven was already pushing the boundaries and doing things that just ...

Current obsession: this descending scale in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. 10 January 2020, 12:12 . Not just any old scale – a huge, fortissimo scale in octaves. And Alice Sara Ott makes it look ...