Amazon.com: There is a lot of really enjoyable music here. I remember organizing a performance of the Fifth Piano Concerto (subtitled "The Egyptian") when I was repertoire committee chairman for a local community orchestra. We found it not only very playable for all of us amateurs in the orchestra, but it simply blew the audience away. It's a real find. Both the Second and Fourth concertos have been popular favorites for more than a century, but they seemed to have vanished sight in the past couple of decades. It was our loss, but no more. And the Fifth Piano Concerto, even when played by amateurs, can blow an audience away. At two discs for the price of one, these fine performances offer listeners a great chance to know this charming and vivacious music at little or no risk at all. So why hesitate? --David Hurwitz
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Rating: - Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos
I am so happy to have discovered these piano concertos from Saint-Saens. I listen to this CD very often. It truly is a beautiful collection of music. I am thrilled to have discovered Camille Saint-Saens.
Rating: - Wonderful
This is one of my favorite CD's. I have it for my car and my home.
Rating: - Sublime
I bought this collection randomly, having never heard any of Saint-Saens's music. Now four years later, I have heard some of these concerti performed live several times, and I've listened to recordings of these ... Read More
Rating: - Emotion Provoking
I know that a lot of reviewers and musical "experts" have a problem with Saint Saens, evidently because emotions are absent from his pieces. Do people, though, consider Hayden's music or Mozart's music chocked full ... Read More
Rating: - Master impressionist, masterfully rendered
Camille Saint-Saens was the master, if not the father, of french classical music; a friend to Liszt, Faure (formerly a pupil) and Berlioz (no small honor, to say the least). He was a prodigy and a genius. He began playing ... Read More
