Camille Saint-Saëns is one of those composers whose fame now rests largely if not exclusively on just a small number of works, ... Saint-Saëns frequently wrote for the instrumental forces available to him. The set opens with a rare Septet for trumpet, string quintet and piano. The score is from 1880 and was the result of...
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Saint-Saëns wrote it in 1881, for a Parisian music society called "La Trompette," and, given such a name, ... The movement's central trio section nicely melds the strings and trumpet into a single voice over a florid piano accompaniment for a flowing, sentimental waltz. Saint-Saëns calls the third movement Intermède.
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The remaining works on the program are as fine as anything Saint-Saëns ever wrote. The "Tarentelle in A minor for flute, clarinet, and piano" is instantly memorable and thoroughly lovable. The mature "Septet for piano, trumpet, two violins, viola, cello, ... 4. Quartet for piano & strings in B flat major, Op. 41 29:50;
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IN ADDITION TO THE SOLO PIANO, the score of Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 calls for an orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings. ... Yet playing the piano was only one of many activities, ... he wrote articles for the press and published half a dozen books;
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3 in C minor and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat, K. 450, for which Saint-Saëns composed his own cadenza. (In encore he offered to play any Beethoven piano sonata - audience choice - from memory.) In addition to a large body of solo piano music, he wrote five piano concertos, all of which he premiered himself.
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Saint-Saëns wrote on musical, scientific and historical topics, frequently travelling around ... Op. 65 Septet for trumpet, string quintet and piano ... Sonate, Op. 167 (Sonata) For Clarinet and Piano. By Camille Saint-Saens. Editions Durand. Size 9x12 inches. 24 pages. Published by Durand. (50561013); See more info...
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For a 20th century piano survey, ... Frustratingly, though, this volume omits many of the pieces he cites as particular favorites (by Saint-Saens, Schumann and Mendelssohn), as well as others, now obscure, ... In liner notes to the Rachmaninoff LP, David Sarnoff wrote: “If one seeks an explanation for Van Cliburn’s magnetism,
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Shostakovich’s entertaining Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings is like a game of musical pinball - a live performance allows the audience to witness the extraordinary interplay between the three elements, ... one of his first forays into neo-classicism, ... Tadaaki Otaka conducts a programme of Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saens,
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