Saint-Saens: Complete Sonatas

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 18, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Camille Saint-Saens
    • PERFORMER
      Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso, Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro, Akane Makita, Soloists of the Acc
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 18, 2025
    • UPC
      5028421976259
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97625
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro agitato

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    3. III. Allegretto moderato

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    4. IV. Allegro molto

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    5. Berceuse in B-Flat Major, Op. 38

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    6. I. Poco allegro più tosto moderato

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    7. II. Scherzo - Vivace

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    8. III. Andante

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    9. IV. Allegro grazioso, non presto

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    10. I. Premice

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    11. II. Vision Congolaise

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    12. III. Joyeusete

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Mauro Tortorelli, Angela Meluso

    13. I. Allegro

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    14. II. Andante tranquillo sostenuto

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    15. III. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    16. I. Maestoso, largamente - Tranquillo

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    17. II. Scherzo con variazioni: Allegro animato

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    18. III. Romanza: Poco adagio

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    19. IV. Allegro non troppo grazioso

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    20. I. Allegretto moderato

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Francesco Bossone, Akane Makita

    21. II. Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Francesco Bossone, Akane Makita

    22. III. Molto adagio

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Francesco Bossone, Akane Makita

    23. Romance in E Major, Op. 67

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Alessio Allegrini, Akane Makita

    24. I. Andantino

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Francesco Di Rosa, Akane Makita

    25. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Francesco Di Rosa, Akane Makita

    26. III. Molto allegro

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Francesco Di Rosa, Akane Makita

    27. Romance in D-Flat Major, Op. 37 (arr. for flute and piano)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Andrea Oliva, Akane Makita

    28. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Stefano Novelli, Akane Makita

    29. II. Allegro animato

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Stefano Novelli, Akane Makita

    30. III. Lento

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Stefano Novelli, Akane Makita

    31. IV. Molto allegro

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Stefano Novelli, Akane Makita

    32. Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op. 79

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Rome, members Santa Cecilia Academy

      Performer: Akane Makita


A unique collection of the instrumental sonatas by Saint-Saens, in recent and critically praised Italian recordings. The perfection of Saint-Saens's craftsmanship and the Gallic grace of his seemingly inexhaustible melodic muse were evident from early on in his career, composing as he did in childhood. No less evident was his faith in traditional forms such as the sonata. The works compiled here were composed over the course of half a century, during which time the world and musical culture evolved radically. Saint-Saens evolved too, but only according to the principles to which he held faith - in tonality, in melodic elegance - throughout his long life and career. In fact the composer was already 37 when he wrote the earliest piece here, the First Cello Sonata, in 1872. It does not seek to emulate the crowd-pleasing brilliance or wit of many of his best-known works but instead plots a dark, dramatic and often Beethovenian course through the conventional three-movement span. Compiling these sonatas in this way helps us to appreciate how, by the time we reach the First Violin Sonata of 1885, Saint-Saens had begun to integrate competing imperatives of intensity and elegance. It is curious that the composer's later violin and cello sonatas have never achieved the popularity of his initial essays. Indeed, these Brilliant Classics recordings almost have the field to themselves in the catalogue. Yet they are surely underestimated, because Saint-Saens had an almost endless capacity for reinvention - as he conclusively demonstrated late in life with three-fifths of a planned project to write five sonatas, all for instruments of the woodwind family. The instruments in these three works are scored for by the deft hand of a composer with a lifetime of experience writing for them in orchestral and chamber music settings.