"Alexandre Kantorow’s final release in his series of Brahms sonatas is also the most effective as an overall programme. Brahms’s First Sonata distils the competing aesthetics of the mid-19th century and Kantorow responds to these intuitively. Hence the inherent rigour and lucidity of its initial Allegro finds as potent a contrast in the Andante’s ruminative variations on a Medieval folksong as does this latter in the Scherzo’s alternate panache and elegance, with the stealthily evolving final rondo conferring a formal focus on the whole prior to its decisive closing bars."
Alexandre Kantorow just became the youngest artist to receive the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award.
