Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2 in g minor op. 22 for 2 Pianos, 4-hands Instrument_Flute Imagine your fingers as 'sorcerers'

Imagine your fingers as 'sorcerers' apprentices'

is the first to give all Beethoven’s rhythms in the violoncello part correctly

Toneholes: Double

il porco rosso - Porco Rosso / Joe Hisaishi

adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2 in g minor op. 22 for 2 Pianos, 4-hands Instrument_Flute Imagine your fingers as 'sorcerers'Given Saint Sans talents both as pianist and composer, it stood to reason that he would engage with the piano concerto genre early on. But he gave a clear renunciation of the concerto brilliant that was dominant in France at that time, declaring instead that the solo part of a concerto must be set out, and treated, like a dramatic role. He realised this concept of a symphonic concerto in this second piano concerto, composed in 1868. The solo part is