Wigmore Hall 125: Alexandre Kantorow

Gold Medal Tchaikovsky Competition winner Alexandre Kantorow performs a captivating programme of music, bridging Medtner's emotionally intense first sonata with the profound heights of Beethoven's final piano sonata. After his five-star 2025 BBC Proms performance of Saint-Saëns's Fifth Piano Concerto, The Times wrote of Kantorow's "buoyancy, delicacy and grace," and this evening's concert will surely be filled with these compelling qualities.

Broadcast live and presented by Sarah Walker.

Liszt: Variations on a theme of Bach, S180
Medtner: Sonata in F minor, Op. 5
Chopin: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45
Hillborg: The Kalamazoo Flow
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op. 111

Alexandre Kantorow (piano)

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