Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 (1868) {Pascal Rogé}

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 (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886). Please support my channel: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 (1868) Dedication A Madame A. de Villers née de Haber Manuscript score 1868, dated May 2. Performance indicators in German in pencil in the first movement, (-4 Viertel schlagen“) and 27 (“8telschlage“) are perhaps from the hand of Ferdinand David, who was the conductor of the work in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig October 15, 1868. 1. Andante sostenuto (0:00) 2. Allegro scherzando (11:36) 3. Presto