The Grand Tour of the National

A love song, followed by two highlights from the French repertoire. Alexandre Kantorow, First Prize and Gold Medal winner at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, chooses Chopin's Second Piano Concerto , which the Polish composer premiered in Warsaw before leaving his country for good, while the vast sound poem of Debussy's La Mer segues into the haunting mechanics of Ravel's Boléro : two pieces championed worldwide by the Orchestre National de Fr...