SOMM Recordings
Oswald: Piano Concerto - Saint-saens: Piano Concerto No. 5 'egyptian'
$20.99
Details
- Composer
- OSWALD SAINT-SAENS
- Artist
- Iruzun, Steen
- Format
- CD
- Label
- SOMM Recordings
- Released
- Aug 21, 2020
- Catalog #
- SOMMCD 276
- UPC
- 748871327627
About
SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the return of the acclaimed partnership of pianist Clélia Iruzun and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen with two colorful late-19th-century Romantic Piano Concertos from Brazil and France: Henrique Oswald’s G minor Piano Concerto, Op.10 and the Fifth Piano Concerto in F major (Op.103) by Camille Saint-Saëns. Iruzun’s Brazilian compatriot Henrique Oswald shared a long friendship with Camille Saint-Saëns based on mutual admiration for each other as composers and pianists. They occasionally performed together some of Saint-Saëns’ music for two pianos in public recitals. Saint-Saëns’ exotic Fifth Piano Concerto, the Egyptian, was composed during a North African holiday in 1896. Combining complex piano writing with a deft lightness of touch, it boasts a lyrical main theme (described by Saint-Saëns as “a Nubian love song”), hypnotic echoes of the gamelan and a finale bursting with virtuosity. Oswald’s Piano Concerto was composed in Italy a decade before Saint-Saëns’ Egyptian. With bravura passages recalling Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto, its richly Romantic vein carries allusions to Fauré while brimming with Oswald’s intriguing native Brazilian rhythms. Like Oswald, Alberto Nepomuceno was a Brazilian who studied in Europe, later succeeding him in a prestigious teaching position in Rio de Janeiro. Modelled on Grieg’s Suite from Holberg’s Time, his Suite Antiga (Suite in the Old Style) combines Baroque style and Romantic attitude with a bewitching savoir faire.
Tracklist 10 tracks
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1 I. Allegro un poco agitato 14:56
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro un poco agitato
- Duration
- 14:56
- Composer
- Henrique Oswald
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
- Ensemble
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Jac van Steen
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2 II. Adagio 07:57
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Adagio
- Duration
- 07:57
- Composer
- Henrique Oswald
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
- Ensemble
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Jac van Steen
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3 III. Allegro 07:01
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Allegro
- Duration
- 07:01
- Composer
- Henrique Oswald
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
- Ensemble
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Jac van Steen
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4 I. Allegro animato 11:27
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Allegro animato
- Duration
- 11:27
- Composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
- Ensemble
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Jac van Steen
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5 II. Andante 10:54
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Andante
- Duration
- 10:54
- Composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
- Ensemble
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Jac van Steen
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6 III. Molto allegro 06:29
- Track
- 6
- Title
- III. Molto allegro
- Duration
- 06:29
- Composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
- Ensemble
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor
- Jac van Steen
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7 I. Prelude 01:15
- Track
- 7
- Title
- I. Prelude
- Duration
- 01:15
- Composer
- Alberto Nepomuceno
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
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8 II. Menuet 04:05
- Track
- 8
- Title
- II. Menuet
- Duration
- 04:05
- Composer
- Alberto Nepomuceno
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
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9 III. Air 04:21
- Track
- 9
- Title
- III. Air
- Duration
- 04:21
- Composer
- Alberto Nepomuceno
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun
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10 IV. Rigaudon 03:29
- Track
- 10
- Title
- IV. Rigaudon
- Duration
- 03:29
- Composer
- Alberto Nepomuceno
- Performer
- Clélia Iruzun