Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 27 - Saint-Saëns
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
If Saint-Saëns's idiom once answered – and maybe still does – to qualities fundamental to the French musical character, it must be said straight away that Hough sounds the complete insider.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2001, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Gold Disc
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5 'L'Égyptien'
Alexandre Kantorow (piano)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
It is no hardship to review yet another Saint-Saëns piano concerto recording when it is as good as this…Believe me, [Kantorow] is the real deal – a firebreathing virtuoso with a poetic charm... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Saint-Saens: The Complete Works For Piano and Orchestra
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
If Saint-Saëns's idiom once answered – and maybe still does – to qualities fundamental to the French musical character, it must be said straight away that Hough sounds the complete insider.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Recording of the Year and Winner (Concerto)
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Gold Disc
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2001, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Lortie proves excellently skilled in the necessary arts for these concertos. He can chatter and twinkle for bars on end, sculpt phrases, and produce splendid decorative flourishes. Orchestral... —
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The French Piano School: French School Pianists Play French Concertos
Jeanne-Marie Darre, Alfred Cortot (piano), Kazuko Kusama, Hisatada Otaka, Marcelle Herrenschmidt, Lucien Wurmser, Victor Gallois, Jean Doyen, Jean Fournet, Francis Poulenc (piano), Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, Marius-François Gaillard, Jean Françaix, Leo Borchard, Nadia Boulanger, Arnaud de Gontaut-Biron,...
Here, recorded between 1930 and 1949, are 14 works for piano and orchestra played either by their composer or by someone well acquainted with them...Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn
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Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
Pascal Rogé (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
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Riccardo Muti conducts Saint-Saens, Britten, Bellini and Rodrigo
Robert Casadesus (piano), Narciso Yepes (guitar)
RAI Symphony Orchestra, Milan, Riccardo Muti
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Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44 & Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 - Debussy: Rhapsodies - Fauré: Ballade in F-Sharp Major, Op. 19
Leonard Bernstein, Zino Francescatti (violin), Robert Casadesus (piano), Stanley Drucker (clarinet), Sigurd Rascher (saxophone)
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