Saint-Saens: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 - Rarities & Transcriptions / Burleson

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
September 13, 2019
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAINT-SAENS, CAMILLE
    • PERFORMER
      Geoffrey Burleson
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 13, 2019
    • UPC
      747313962624
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP626
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Bagatelle No. 1

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    2. Bagatelle No. 2

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    3. Antwort

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    4. Fantaisie sur la Quintette de L'Étoile du Nord de Meyerbeer

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    5. Valse du Prophète de Meyerbeer

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    6. Fantaisie sur Lohengrin de Wagner

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    7. Chœur des Derviches Tourneurs Tiré des Ruines d'Athènes de Beethoven

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    8. Paraphrase sur Gallia de Gounod

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    9. Scherzo sur Les Pêcheurs de Perles de Bizet

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    10. La mort de Thaïs, paraphrase de concert pour piano sur l'opéra de Massenet

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    11. Improvisation sur la Beethoven-Cantate de Liszt

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson

    12. Africa, Op. 89

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson


The eight world premiere recordings included in this programme are played from a treasure trove of unpublished manuscripts obtained by Geoffrey Burleson from the Bibliotheque nationale de France, each of them filled with strong and imaginative ideas. Further virtuosic rarities by Saint-Saens include a solo transcription of his exotic Africa for piano and orchestra, and fantasies on works by Beethoven, Gounod, Liszt, Bizet, and others. Geoffrey Burleson has an active career as a performing artist, and has performed in such prestigious venues as the Eglise St-Merri, Paris; the American Academy in Rome; the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki; the Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall, Athens; the National Museum of Art, Mexico City and De Doelen, Rotterdamas as well as with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Arlington and New England Philharmonics, and the Holland Symfonia. He is on the piano faculty of Princeton University and the City University of New York Graduate Center, and is professor of music and director of piano studies at Hunter College, CUNY.