Camille Saint-Saëns – Clarinet Sonata | Anton & Elena Moiseyenko

Anton and Elena Moiseyenko, known as Duo Inspiro, are happy to present you one of the greatest sonatas ever written for clarinet and piano – the Clarinet Sonata by Camille Saint-Saëns. Dedicated to Auguste Périer. 00:00 - Intro 00:13 - I. Allegretto 04:31 - II. Allegro animato 06:33 - III. Lento 11:34 - IV. Molto allegro Credits to Yakov Zakhvatkin (sound engineer) and Nikita Mikhaylov (camera). Special thanks to Cinelab SoundMix. Saint-Saëns wrote to a friend in April of the year he died: “At the moment I am putting my last ounce of energy into giving seldom considered instruments an opportunity to be heard”. Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third (“Organ“) Symphony