Exotic & Sensual Album On Vinyl LP!
Following his award-winning survey of Ravels complete solo piano works, Bertrand Chamayou takes on some of the most brilliant yet fiendishly virtuosic music in the French Romantic repertoire on his Saint-Saëns album, drawing together the two most famous of the composer-pianists 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. These 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. Im always charmed by Saint-Saëns, says Chamayou. Theres an attraction to the exotic, the bizarre, sensual fantasy, thats very curious for a composer that we think of as so academic. And theres a real sense of voyage in the music of Saint-Saëns that I find fascinating.
Chamayou 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.
Features:
• Vinyl LP
• Limited time album download
Musicians:
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Selections:
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Side A:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22
I. Andante sostenuto
II. Allegro scherzando
III. Presto
Side B:
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major 'Egyptian', Op.103
I. Allegro animato
II. Andante
III. Molto allegro
Following his award-winning survey of Ravels complete solo piano works, Bertrand Chamayou takes on some of the most brilliant yet fiendishly virtuosic music in the French Romantic repertoire on his Saint-Saëns album, drawing together the two most famous of the composer-pianists 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. These 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. Im always charmed by Saint-Saëns, says Chamayou. Theres an attraction to the exotic, the bizarre, sensual fantasy, thats very curious for a composer that we think of as so academic. And theres a real sense of voyage in the music of Saint-Saëns that I find fascinating.
Chamayou 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.
Features:
• Vinyl LP
• Limited time album download
Musicians:
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Selections:
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Side A:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22
I. Andante sostenuto
II. Allegro scherzando
III. Presto
Side B:
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major 'Egyptian', Op.103
I. Allegro animato
II. Andante
III. Molto allegro
