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BI 2380
Brahms, Bartók & Liszt: Piano Works
Label Catalogue Number:
BIS-2380
BIS-2380
Running Time: 01:05:04
Release Date: September 2020
Originally recorded in 2019
Originally recorded in 2019
Genre:
Classical
Piano
Classical
Piano
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About
In 2019, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. Before then he had released three acclaimed albums, awarded distinctions such as Diapason d'or de l'Année and Gramophone's Editor's Choice and earning Kantorow descriptions ranging from 'Liszt reincarnated' to 'a firebreathing virtuoso with a poetic charm and innate stylistic mastery'. The present recital, his first release since the Tchaikovsky Competition, offers plenty of scope for virtuosity, poetry and charm, always filtered through an acute stylistic consciousness. The programme is constructed around three rhapsodies, a genre whose improvisatory character corresponds perfectly with the spirit of Romanticism but here interpreted by three highly distinct artistic temperaments: Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Béla Bartók.
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Reviews
"... Like all the works here, Kantorow plays the Brahms with fire and poetry - nothing sounds dutiful, as it often does when I hear other recordings..."
Rob Haskins – American Record Guide – March/April 2021
“…the main interest of this record lies in his [Kantorow] performance of Bartók’s Second Rhapsody Op 1 ... Kantorow finds a chaste beauty …”
Michael Church – International Piano magazine – January/February 2021
Nominee in Solo Music Category
International Classical Music Awards 2021
Interpretation ****** Sound ****** Repertoire *****
Carsten Durer – Piano News magazine (Germany) – November/December 2020
Editor’s Choice – Instrumental
“… Kantorow is obviously an outstanding pianist and musician with an agile technique that allows him perfect clarity in the most complex textures, abundant sensitivity and refinement, and maturity well beyond his years... Arrival finally at the 11th Liszt Rhapsody feels like the achievement of an oasis of purest classicism and succinct expression, and provides a showcase for Kantorow’s ability to maintain clarity and poise at breakneck speed…”
Patrick Rucker – Gramophone magazine – November 2020
“…His [Kantorow’s] performance [of the Brahms sonata] is massively assured, as impressive for its moments of crystalline delicacy, especially in the coda of the finale, as it is for its command of the more extrovert, barnstorming moments….”
Andrew Clements – The Guardian – 12 November 2020
Recommended
“… You may find other performances of some of these works as fine as these, but Kantorow's consistency throughout all four compositions clearly sets this apart from most other such varied piano collections. I highly recommend this splendid disc by Alexandre Kantorow, a pianist who will surely have a major career on the international concert stages.”
Robert Cumming – MusicWeb-International.com – 14 October 2020
Alexandre Kantorow Artist of the Year with this disc
Philippe Venturini - Classica magazine (France) - November 2020
“… An interesting program, then, with less-often performed pieces played with a persuasive conviction.”
Tal Agam – theclassicreview.com – 26 September 2020
Choc de Classica
Alain Lompech - Classica (France) - September 2020
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