Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 1-5; Wedding Cake Caprice-Valse
Album review: As a tourist, Camille Saint-Saëns felt compelled to climb every mountain and ford every stream. As a composer, however, Saint-Saëns felt perfectly comfortable staying at home with the most conservative of late nineteenth century composers. Indeed, in his piano concertos, Saint-Saëns sounds less like a late nineteenth century composer than like a Gallic Schumann , a composer of tuneful, virtuoso works that delight and beguile by rarely soaring and never challenging. Even in these warmly...
