"Alexandre Kantorow completes his survey of Brahms’s piano sonatas with a stunning release that stands up to its two widely praised predecessors. I use the word ‘stunning’ advisedly: if Jonathan Plowright’s magisterial account of the First Sonata (12/17) leaves you enlightened, Kantorow’s leaves you shaken. The work is eventful – perhaps even over-eventful as a consequence of the composer’s immaturity. And Kantorow accepts, indeed revels in, that unruliness instead of trying to tame it, taking full advantage of his virtuoso technique and his astonishingly wide dynamic range to wring out the music’s turmoil."
Alexandre Kantorow just became the youngest artist to receive the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award.
