Wigmore Hall 125: Alexandre Kantorow
As part of Wigmore Hall’s 125th Anniversary Festival, French pianist Alexandre Kantorow plays Liszt, Chopin and Beethoven.
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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Franz Liszt
Variationen uber das Motiv von Bach S180
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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner
Piano Sonata in F minor Op5
Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor
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Joseph Haydn
String quartet in D major Op 71 No 2
Ensemble: Takács Quartet.- Haydn: String Quartets Op 71.
- Hyperion.
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Frédéric Chopin
Prelude in C sharp minor Op.45
Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. -
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Anders Hillborg
The Kalamazoo Flow
Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111
Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. -
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Richard Wagner
Death of Isolde (Liebestod)
Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. -
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David Popper
Dance of the Elves
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Adès.- RCA.
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Gabriel Fauré
Allegretto moderato for 2 cellos
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: David Waterman.- RCA.
Broadcast
- Thu 28 May 2026 19:30BBC Radio 3