Alexandre Kantorow
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
The virtuosity is breathtaking, yet nothing is hard-pressed, for the younger Kantorow has that hallmark of the greatest performers of always appearing to have plenty of time...In short, this... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Concerto Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critics Choice, Autumn 2022, Orchestral Music & Concertos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Panache is Kantorow’s strength throughout the program, but it is combined with probing emotional maturity, which is rare. I doubt that any prediction will come true for him other than the prediction... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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an outstanding young artist at work...the early Tchaikovsky Scherzo brims over with panache and relish; and Islamey rivals even Berezovsky for the title of cleanest and most exhilarating account.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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First, you can take his peerless technical ability for granted. Next, he is blessed with a remarkable personal sound: it has the quality of a dark, warm roar from deep within the instrument,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Piano
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5 'L'Égyptien'
Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this…Believe me, [Kantorow] is the real deal – a firebreathing virtuoso with a poetic charm... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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[Sonata] The moods of the three inner movements are beautifully expressed. I would easily call this my new favorite performance of Piano Sonata No. 3—every aspect of youthful genius is thrown... —
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Momentum [2]: Korngold, Richard Strauss
Liya Petrova (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Duncan Ward, Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
No superficial gloss here, which is not to say that she doesn’t make an attractive sound – sure-footed, intensely sweet in her higher register and unfolding the central Romance in long, rhapsodic... —
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Kantorow's approach rejects bombast in favour of an equable, mellow-toned artistry that's admirable in itself…Kantorow's way with [the Second Concerto], at once powerful and lucid, convinces... —
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