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Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5. Pieces For Solo Piano
Bertrand Chamayou / Orchestre Nationale De France / Emmanuel Krivine
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5. Pieces For Solo Piano
Bertrand Chamayou / Orchestre Nationale De France / Emmanuel Krivine
Following his award-winning survey of Ravel's complete solo piano works, Bertrand Chamayou takes on some of the most brilliant yet fiendishly virtuosic music in the
French Romantic repertoire on his new Saint-Saëns album, drawing together the two most famous of the composer-pianist's five piano concertos - the epic No.2 and
the irresistibly exotic No.5 'The Egyptian' - alongside a bouquet of lesser-known solo pieces and études that will delight pianophiles. He is joined by the Orchestre
National de France and its formidable conductor Emmanuel Krivine for an album that promises fireworks, champagne and just a few puffs of opium. The solo piano works include the effervescent yet notoriously difficult Étude en forme de Valse with its breathtaking bravura finale, and the entrancing Les Cloches de Las Palmas inspired by the bells Saint-Saëns heard ringing out in the Canary Islands. 'I'm always charmed by Saint-Saëns,' says Chamayou. 'There's an attraction to the exotic, the bizarre,
sensual fantasy, that's very curious for a composer that we think of as so academic. And there's a real sense of voyage in the music of Saint-Saëns that I find fascinating.'
BERTRAND CHAMAYOU
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Specielt cover | Digipak |
Released | September 7, 2018 |
EAN/UPC | 0190295634261 |
Label | ERATO 190295634261 |
Genre | Classical Concerto |
Dimensions | 124 × 141 × 8 mm · 76 g |
Conductor | Emmanuelle Haim |
Orchestra | Orchestre National De France |
Soloist | Bertrand Chamayou |
Track list
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- Piano Concerto in G Minor No.2 Op.22 - Andante Sostenuto
- Piano Concerto in G Minor No.2 Op.22 - Allegro Scherzando
- Piano Concerto in G Minor No.2 Op.22 - Presto
- Piano Concerto in F Major No.5 Op.103 - Allegro Animato
- Piano Concerto in F Major No.5 Op.103 - Andante
- Piano Concerto in F Major No.5 Op.103 - Molto Allegro
- 6 Etudes Op.111 'les Cloches De Las Palmas'
- 6 Etudes Op.52 'en Forme De Valse'
- Mazurka for Piano in B Minor No.3 Op.66
- 6 Etudes Op.111 'tierces Majeures et Mineures'
- Allegro Appasionnato Op.70
- 6 Etudes Op.52 'pour L'independence Des Doigts'
- Valse Nonchalante in D-flat Major Op.110