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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 composers own words describes a sort of Eastern journey that goes all the way to the Far East.
Manufacturer:- BIS Records
Label:- BIS Records
Country of origin:- United Kingdom
Number of discs:- 1