Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Spartacus / La Muse Et Le Poete
10/1/2002, 5 Tracks, 54:05
Featuring
Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Torleif Thedéen
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Camille Saint-Saëns
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Instruments
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, the violinist and conductor on this album, plays a Stradivarius violin from 1699.
Composition History
Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 2 in C major, Op. 58, was written in 1858 but withheld and only published 21 years later in 1879, receiving its first performance the following year.
Composer Biography
Camille Saint-Saëns, born in Paris in 1835, was proclaimed a child prodigy, with the press calling him 'the new Mozart'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Saint-Saëns remained true to his compositional ideal, oriented towards classical and early romantic music, even when other composers became 'Wagnerians' and 'Modernists'.
Composition History
The programmatic title of La Muse et le poète was added by Saint-Saëns' publisher, Durand, after the work was written in Luxor, Egypt, in 1909/10.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Saint-Saëns' solo concerto ideal emphasized the orchestra and musical substance, aiming to evoke 'the vibration of all the strings of the soul'.
Composition History
Saint-Saëns, despite his classical aesthetic, was a pioneer of film music, writing music for the film L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise as early as 1908.
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