Kantorow Performs Brahms; Fischer Conducts Mendelssohn's Midsummer

Alexandre Kantorow — a fire-breathing French pianist who won the Tchaikovsky Competition at 22 — plays Brahms's First Piano Concerto, one of the most physically demanding works in the repertoire. Iván Fischer follows with Mendelssohn's complete Midsummer Night's Dream — fairies, the wedding march, and a chorus. Two and a half hours of Romantic music at its most vivid.