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| |  | The Romantic Piano Concerto 27 - Saint-Saëns
“If Saint-Saëns's idiom once answered – and maybe still does – to qualities fundamental to the French musical character, it must be said straight away that Hough sounds the complete insider. He commands the range of the big statements, whatever their character, as well as sparkle and panache, a sense of drama and seemingly inexhaustible stamina; and he can charm. Yet perhaps most delightful is the lightness and clarity of his decorative playing.
It's a bonus for the virtuoso passages not to sound hectic or overblown – for Saint-Saëns, virtuosity always had an expressive potential.
There's an air of manufacture about the writing sometimes, certainly, but as Hough knows, there must be nothing mechanical in its delivery.
Sweeping across the keyboard, dipping and soaring through the teaming notes, he flies like a bird. He manages to convey what makes these pieces tick: fine workmanship, fantasy, colour, and the various ways Saint-Saëns was so good at combining piano and orchestra. The orchestra has plenty to do. These scores are textbooks of lean but firm orchestration from which at least one major French composer learned (Ravel, another eclectic, who must have seen the 'old bear' as a kindred spirit). The days are past when the CBSO under Louis Frémaux was considered Britain's 'French' orchestra, but with Sakari Oramo it does splendidly here, playing alertly with its inspiring soloist as he does with it (another plus). The recording balances are fine, with lovely piano sound and plenty of orchestral detail in natural-sounding perspectives.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Marvellous performances of these delightful and ever inventive works from Stephen Hough, full of joy, vigour and sparkle, with Oramo and the CBSO acompanying spiritedly and with the lightest touch...An easy first choice for this repertoire.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
Michele Campanella (piano), Daniel Chorzempa (piano), Bella Davidovich (piano), Pascal Roge (piano), Magda Tagliaferro (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte-Carlo, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato, Charles Dutoit, Jean Fournet, Neeme Jarvi, Edo de Waart Saint-Saens complete piano concertos on a 2CD Eloquence set presents some truly rare recordings - Campanella's of the Fourth and Tagliaferro's of the Fifth. And while the second is oft-played, this set gives the listener an opportunity to discover the lesser known First and Third. Also included is the first release on CD of Wedding Cake, with Daniel Chorzempa, familiar to all as an organist, playing the piano. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Although Camille Saint-Saëns ranks among the most notable of French composers, he was also one of the leading pianists of his day – a child prodigy whose virtuosic talent continued to delight audiences well into his later years. His piano concertos were written primarily for his own use in concert. Today they occupy a fun and sparkling place in the repertoire. Full of youthful ambition and recalling Mendelssohn’s lively style, Saint-Saëns’s First Piano Concerto was written when the composer was just 23; another ten years followed before the Second, which is generally considered the masterpiece of the set. Written especially for a concert conducted by Anton Rubinstein, No.2 is certainly Saint-Saëns’s most popular: high in spirits and full of invention, it was soon followed by the Third Piano Concerto of 1869 and much later by the Fourth, whose adventurous and novel five-section structure reveals a mature composer at the height of his career. The Fifth is an exotic-sounding work that was written during the composer’s annual vacation to Egypt in 1895. Not only do Saint-Saëns’s piano concertos provide evidence of the composer’s developing style, but they illuminate how arresting an artist he must have been in concert. Philippe Entremont has long been admired for his panache in Romantic music, from admired discs of Rachmaninov’s concertos with Ormandy and the Philadelphia in the 1960s to these more modern recordings. Michel Plasson and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse complete an all-French line-up. Recorded in 1978–79 “Entremont is a pianist of skill and aplomb, fully equal to [these concertos’] technical demands.” Gramophone Magazine, July 1991 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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After the international success of Camille Saint-Saëns’s five piano concertos in two single volumes audite now presents the complete piano concertos as a reissue on double SACD. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Saint-Saëns - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
“Ogawa is a compelling soloist.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2007 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Saint-Saens: Complete Music for Piano and Orchestraand chamber and orchestral pieces for various instruments
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| |  | Saint-Saëns: Concertos
Saint-Saëns: | Le carnaval des animaux Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 Paul Tortelier (cello) Septet in E flat major for piano, trumpet, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass Op. 65 Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 14 Etude en forme de valse Op. 52 No. 6 Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Major Op. 20 Ulf Hoelscher (violin) Violin Concerto No. 2 in C Major Op. 58 Ulf Hoelscher (violin) Etude en forme de valse Op. 52 No. 6 Romance in C major, Op. 48, for violin and orchestra Ulf Hoelscher (violin) Romance in D flat major, Op. 37 Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 Ulf Hoelscher (violin) La Muse et le Poète, Op. 132 Havanaise, Op. 83 Morceau de concert in G major, Op. 62, for violin and orchestra Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 Ulf Hoelscher (violin) Caprice andalou, Op. 122 Prélude to Le Deluge Op. 45 |
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| |  | Piano Concerto Collection
Beethoven: | Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (complete) Piano Concerto in D major, arranged by the composer after the Violin Concerto, Op. 61a | Brahms: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119 Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 Waltzes (16), Op. 39 | Chopin: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major, Op. 2 Fantasia in A major on Polish Airs, Op. 13 Krakowiak - Concert Rondo in F, Op. 14 Mazurkas Op. 50 Nos. 1-3 Mazurkas Op. 56 Nos. 1-3 | Gershwin: | Piano Concerto in F major | Grieg: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 | Liszt: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124 Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125 Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra Malédiction, S121 Op. 452 | Mendelssohn: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40 | Mozart: | Piano Concertos Nos. 1-27 (complete) | Rachmaninov: | Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 (complete) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 | Ravel: | Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand) Piano Concerto in G major | Saint-Saëns: | Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 Africa - Fantasie for piano & orchestra Op. 89 | Schumann: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 | Tchaikovsky: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 |
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