Alexandre Kantorow: Brahms & Schubert
‘Intense doesn't even begin to describe this piano phenomenon … I doubt anyone was quite prepared for the experience of hearing this phenomenal 24-year-old French pianist live.’
The piano star Alexandre Kantorow, hailed as ‘a fire-breathing virtuoso’, unites Schubert’s music with two composers who championed it, Brahms and Liszt.
One of the piano world’s brightest young stars, Kantorow won the coveted Gold Medal at the 2019 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.
Hailed by Gramophone as ‘the real deal, a fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm and innate stylistic mastery’, he makes a welcome return to the Southbank Centre.
His programme connects the music of Schubert to Brahms and Liszt, both of whom devotedly helped to establish him in public consciousness after his early death.
Brahms prepared editions of some of Schubert’s works for publication, uncredited; Liszt transcribed many of Schubert’s songs for piano solo and performed them in his ever-popular recitals.
Kantorow opens with Brahms’ first published work, his stirring and heroic Sonata in C major Op.1, which pays tribute to Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata.
After a selection of Liszt’s Schubert transcriptions, he performs Schubert’s groundbreaking Wanderer Fantasy.
Performers
- Alexandre Kantorow piano
Repertoire
- Brahms: Piano Sonata No.1 in C, Op.1
- Interval
- Schubert: Der Wanderer arr. Liszt for piano, S.558 No.11; Der Müller und der Bach arr. Liszt for piano, S.565 No.2; Frühlingsglaube arr. Liszt for piano, S.558 No.7; Die Stadt arr. Liszt for piano, S.560 No.1; Am Meer arr. Liszt for piano, S.560 No.4; Fantasy in C, D.760 (Wandererfantasie)
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For ages 7+
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