Alexandre Kantorow Plays Brahms, Bartók & Liszt

In 2019, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. This album, his first release since that competition, offers plenty of scope for virtuosity, poetry and charm, always filtered through an acute stylistic consciousness. The program is constructed around three rhapsodies, a genre whose improvisatory character corresponds perfectly with the spirit of Romanticism here interpreted by three highly distinct artistic temperaments: Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Béla Bartók.