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Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s charismatic leadership and the Orchestre Métropolitain’s seamless unity brought Ravel, Saint-Saëns, and Tchaikovsky to life in a gripping, deeply expressive Hamburg performance.

A sumptuous exploration of Saint-Saëns at Lotte Concert Hall in a programme forming a cohesive tapestry woven from the composer’s fascination with colour, all traced back to a distinctly Parisian sensibility. 

Alexandre Kantorow dazzles in Liszt’s Piano Concerto no. 2, against Bruckner’s mighty, unfinished Ninth Symphony. Manfred Honeck and the Philharmonia win new friends for both composers.

Laden with the most prestigious prizes, Alexandre Kantorow makes a virtuosic hall debut, but with a poetic cause. 

On its 50th anniversary concert tour, the Hong Kong Philharmonic pulls out all stops in Singapore, joined by star French pianist Alexandre Kantorow. 

Alenandre Kantorow storms the Proms with an eloquent account of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. matched by a full-blooded Shostakovich 10 from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko.  

The French pianist gives a performance of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto to remember; Tugan Sokhiev and an inconsistent Santa Cecilia thrill in Tchaikovsky. 

French pianist Alexandre Kantorow and conductor Jérémie Rhorer make successful debuts with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. 

The French pianist thrills in Brahms, Schubert and Schubert clothed by Liszt in a stunning recital in Aix-en-Provence.

Alexandre Kantorow dazzles in Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto with Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

To be dubbed “Liszt reincarnate” could be a mixed blessing for a young pianist. But there were moments here the Abbé himself would have treasured.

Think of a poet irresistibly teasing your senses by his creative use of rhythm, his unpredictable style of speech and his unfailing imagination.

Kantorow had his work cut out for him, playing masses of cluster chords and arpeggios up and down the keyboard.