Camille Saint-Saëns: Solo Piano Rarities presents six never-before published gems of the piano literature by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). Edited for the first time ever by pianist Geoffrey Burleso...
The Danse macabre is the third symphonic poem in orchestral version composed by Saint-Saens in early 1875. Six months after finishing the orchestral score, the composer completed the two-piano transcr...
Saint-Saens beliebtes Werk Karneval der Tiere ist nun auch als spanische Ausgabe in der Reihe Klassische Meisterwerke zum Kennenlernen erschienen. Die leichte Klavierbearbeitung der 'großen zoologisch...
New Urtext Edition by Klaus Burmeister First performance 13 May, 1868 The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor was composed in the spring of 1868 for the impending conducting début of the Russian composer...
Two copies needed for performance This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Ca...
Given Saint-Saëns' talents both as pianist and composer, it stood to reason that he would engage with the piano concerto genre early on. But he gave a clear renunciation of the 'concerto brilliant' th...
Despite its unusual form - a structure with two sections, each comprising two movements that are to be played without interruption - this work from 1875 enjoyed great success from the start. In its ba...
