Two of the brightest young stars in the classical music firmament team up for a rich and eclectic program on the stage of the Philharmonie de Paris: the dynamic Klaus Mäkelä, the Orchestre de Paris's music director, and virtuoso pianist Alexandre Kantorow! Winner of the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019 and the ultra-prestigious Gilmore Artist Award for 2024, Kantorow performs Saint-Saëns's "Egyptian" Piano Concerto No. 5, written while the composer was staying in Luxor and brimming with Eastern influences. The second half of the program features one of John Dowland's early 17th-century pavanes, the heart-wrenching Lachrimae Antiquae, and concludes with Schumann's Symphony No. 2, a defiant burst of C major triumph born from a period of illness and suffering.

Photo: Klaus Mäkelä © Marco Borggreve
Klaus Mäkelä appears courtesy of Decca Classics. Alexandre Kantorow appears courtesy of BIS Records.