Saint-Saëns - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 - Decca: 4758764 - download

Saint-Saëns's… piano concertos are fascinating works on many fronts, but not least for the balance they seem to hold between the wild Romantic and the contained Classical composer. Thibaudet... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: 4758764
Label: Decca
Length: 66 minutes

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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 'Egyptian'

Work length27:01

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 2007-02-03
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Allegro animato

Track length10:01

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2. Andante

Track length11:17

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3. Molto allegro

Track length5:43

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Franck, C: Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra, M46

Work length15:46

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 2007-02-03
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

Work length23:17

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 2007-02-03
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Andante sostenuto

Track length11:15

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2. Allegro scherzando

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3. Presto

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December 2007

Saint-Saëns's… piano concertos are fascinating works on many fronts, but not least for the balance they seem to hold between the wild Romantic and the contained Classical composer. Thibaudet subscribes rather to the latter view.

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This scintillating disc finds Jean-Yves Thibaudet on notably effervescent form, revelling in Saint-Saëns's pianistic brio and intricacy. He makes a special case for the enchanting but still neglected Egyptian Concerto, commenced in Luxor, completed in Cairo and, according to the composer, reflecting 'the joy of a sea voyage'.
He brings a recognisably French clarity and verve to the music's foaming figuration and captures all of its audacity (an imitation of croaking Nile frogs in the central Andante and pumping boat engines in the riotous finale).
Hear his pin-point brilliance in the opening Allegro animato where the pianist weaves a sparkling thread round the orchestral outline, his fast-paced avoidance of sententiousness in the long-winded Andante and his rush of adrenalin in the split octave upsurge at the end of the concluding Molto allegro, and you are made conscious of a pianist whose virtuosity takes wing in exactly the way prescribed by the composer.
Much the same could be said of Thibaudet's performance of the Second Concerto, music which as one writer put it journeys from Bach to Offenbach. His ad libitum opening cadenza is complemented by flashing fingers elsewhere, and since there is inwardness as well as an irresistible élan and impetus in the Franck Variations, you could say that Thibaudet and France (or in Franck's case, Belgium) go together like a horse and carriage. Dutoit and the Suisse Romande are all of a piece with their high-flying soloist and Decca's balance and sound are exemplary.

December 2007

This scintillating disc finds Jean-Yves Thibaudet in notably effervescent form, revelling in Saint-Saëns's pianistic brio and intricacy. Dutoit and the Suisse Romande are all of a piece with their high-flying soloist and Decca's balance and sound are exemplary.

[On Thibaudet's playing of the Saint Saens Piano Concerto No.2] brilliant, heartless, Parisian, and Thibaudet rode it like a powerful horse, getting into a sure-footed rhythm, leaping every fence…

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