Alexandre Kantorow

He is a "master of clarity" and much more: poet and virtuoso at the same time. Now the French pianist Alexandre Kantorow returns to the Kölner Philharmonie - with a program that has rarity value and has it all.

The infernal dance from a ballet music and next to it a gentle nocturne that could be played in a Parisian salon. A movement from one of the most complicated etude works in music history as well as a little-known Rhapsody by the best-known Hungarian composer - plus an early masterpiece by Johannes Brahms that is rarely experienced in the concert hall: Alexandre Kantorow, 2019 winner at the famous Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, has curated an extraordinary program for his Cologne appearance.