Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Jean-Jacques Kantorow is a modern exemplar of the great French-Belgian violin school, with a dash of influence coming from his Russian ancestry. He has also become noted across Europe in his second career as a conductor.
Kantorow was born in Cannes, France, on October 13, 1945. He showed talent in childhood and enrolled at the Nice Conservatory and then, at 13, at the Paris Conservatory, where he took home a top prize in 1960. Throughout the '60s, he remained one of Europe's most consistent competition prize-winners, and his performance career became worldwide in scope, focusing on the standard concerto repertory. Among the many figures in the musical world who hailed his playing was Glenn Gould, who called Kantorow a "staggering" talent and the most original violinist he had ever heard. Grove dictionary noted his playing "combines the best features of the French and Russian schools." In 1974, Kantorow made his recording debut on the soundtrack to the film Un coeur en hiver.
Kantorow grew into conducting as an orchestra leader, serving in that capacity with the Orchestre de Paris in 1977 and 1978 and with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra from 1978 until 1984. He became the principal conductor of the Auvergne Chamber Orchestra in 1985. Kantorow also held substantial conducting engagements with various ensembles outside France, including the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, serving as artistic director of the Helsinki group.
As a violinist, Kantorow has recorded much of the standard concerto repertory, with a special emphasis on virtuoso Russian works. Of his more than 160 recordings, dozens remain available. Many of his violin recordings were released on the Denon label; as a conductor, he has often been associated with BIS in his capacity as conductor of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. In 2019, he released a recording with that group of the Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4, and 5 of Saint-Saëns, a composer for whose work he has had an affinity as both violinist and conductor. The soloist on that release was his son, pianist Alexandre Kantorow. Kantorow's CV has included major teaching positions at conservatories in Strasbourg and Rotterdam and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Kantorow remained active during the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing albums devoted to Saint-Saëns as conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and the Tapiola Sinfonietta on BIS. He moved to the Avie label in 2024, leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on a recording by violinist Philippe Graffin of recently rediscovered violin-and-orchestra works of Eugène Ysaÿe.
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Clásica - Editado por Denon el 1/01/2010
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Canteloube : Chants d'Auvergne
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Orchestre d'Auvergne
Clásica - Editado por Denon el 24/05/1994
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3 SONATES CLAVECIN
Brigitte Haudebourg, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Clásica - Editado por Arion el 15/02/1999
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Saint-Saëns: Symphonies, Vol. 2
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Virtuoso Violin Concertos
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Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 7/08/2006
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Saint-Saens: Music for Violin and Orchestra
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Bacri: Symphony No. 4, "Classique Sturm Und Drang" - Flute Concerto - Concertos, Op. 80
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Tchaikovsky: Souvenir De Florence & Serenade in C Major
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Mozart: Flute Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Lalo: Concerto russe - Romance-serenade - Fantaisie-ballet - Piano Concerto
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Klami: Symphonie Enfantine / Hommage A Handel / Suite for Strings / Suite for Small Orchestra
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Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 - 2, Op. 6 & 7 (Live Recording)
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Saint-Saens, C.: Africa / Symphony No. 2 / Symphony in F major, "Urbs Roma"
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major - Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D
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Clásica - Editado por Denon el 30/08/1993
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Mozart: Symphonies
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Cantos del alma - Sinfonía a Granada
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Shostakovich: Chamber Symphonies
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Chamouard: Concertino pour violon et orchestre
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Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Symphony in A Major
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Haydn: Violin Concertos
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Música concertante - Editado por Cascavelle el 8/03/1995
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