Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5 Alexandre Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Jean-Jacques Kantorow

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921): Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 29:
• 1 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 29: I. Moderato assai 13:11
• 2 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 29: II. Andante 06:33
• 3 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 29: III. Allegro non troppo 07:20
• Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44:
• 4 Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44: I. Allegro moderato - Andante 11:33
• 5 Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44: II. Allegro vivace - Andante - Allegro 12:56
• Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 "Egyptian":
• 6 Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 "Egyptian": I. Allegro animato 10:38
• 7 Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 "Egyptian": II. Andante 11:12
• 8 Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 "Egyptian": III. Molto allegro 05:50
• Total Runtime 01:19:13

Info for Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5

Jean-Jacques Kantorow and the Tapiola Sinfonietta have championed the music of Saint-Saëns on a series of acclaimed discs, and are now joined by the young Alexandre Kantorow –son of the conductor – for a survey of his works for piano and orchestra. In 1858, Saint-Saëns became the first major French composer to write a piano concerto, but on this first disc of two the Kantorows present the three last concertos. Composed over a period of almost 30 years (1868 – 1896), these are highly individual works: Piano Concerto No. 3 is a bold attempt to reconcile Classical form with a Lisztian pianistic brio, No. 4 employs an unusual formal scheme in which themes are reused in a cyclic manner and, finally, the ‘Egyptian’ (No. 5), named after the second movement, which in the composer’s own words describes ‘a sort of Eastern journey that goes all the way to the Far East’.

Alexandre Kantorow, piano
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor

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