The 12 violin concertos Op. 3 L'Estro Armonico laid the foundations of Antonio Vivaldi's fame in the whole of Europe and are still among the most popular works by the Italian composer. The Double Conc...
Saint-Saëns added considerably to the violin repertoire: including two sonatas, three concertos and a number of small works with piano or orchestral accompaniment. That was partly as a result of his f...
The Sicilienne goes back to a commission concerning an unfinished incidental music of Molière's 'Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'. Only after its incorporation into another incidental music (Pelléas et Mélis...
Neuheit der Formen, ausgesuchte Modulationen, eigentümliche Klangfarben, den Einsatz völlig unerwarteter Rhythmen, lobte Camille Saint-Saëns das Erstlingswerk eines jungen Kollegen und fuhr fort: "Übe...
There is hardly a violinist who has not dealt with some or even all 42 'Kreutzer etudes' sometime or other: Études ou caprices form part of the standard repertoire. Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) has n...
In November 1885 Camille Saint-Saëns set out on a concert tour with the Cuban violinist Diaz Albertini which led him to the north of France on his way to Germany. On a cold and damp evening, the crack...
Not much is known about the origin of the 'Berceuse' Op. 16 composed in 1878 or 1879 although it surely is one of the most famous works by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). Later, Fauré even arranged the wor...
'Nobody knows the music of the whole world better than Monsieur Saint-Saëns', Claude Debussy praised his fellow composer, and there are only few who left such a comprehensive oeuvre covering all genre...
