Many superlatives have qualified the playing of French pianist Alexandre Kantorow, revealed to the world upon his triumph at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019, at just 22 years of age: virtuosity, beauty, elegance. Fanfare magazine speaks of him as a “reincarnated Liszt,” Diapason proclaims him “the new star of the piano”! His first two concerts in Canada take place in Lanaudière: a solo piano recital—a program dedicated to Liszt and his expressive genius—and a lieder recital with baritone Matthias Goerne, the following day.
Johann Sebastian Bach/Franz Liszt, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, S.179
Robert Schumann, Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11
Franz Liszt,
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Abschied, S.251
La lugubre gondola II, S.200
Alexander Scriabin, Vers la flamme, Op. 72
Franz Liszt, Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
