Enjoy a 7 minute, 14 second piece from composer Camille Saint-Saens, as the first YourClassical
freebie of this new week.
It is from her Naxos album
Saint-Saens - Piano Concertos - Klavierkonzerte - Concertos pour piano, Nos. 2 and 4. The piece that you can get
free is
Piano Concerto No. 2: III. Presto.
The album is performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, with Idil Biret on the piano. The conductor is James Loughran.
Find out more general information about the whole album
here. The album has some reviews at
this webpage, but they are paltry. That is kind of a mystery to me, because the album was physically released way back in 1990; you would think that over that time lots of reviews would have accumulated. Perhaps Saint-Saens is not a very well-known composer.
I would describe the piece as being very lively. The piano is certainly there, but it does not overwhelm the rest of the music.
The "Direct MP3 download link" is on
this webpage. For the benefit of those who haven't seen such YourClassical posts as this one before, you do not have to set up any account, give them your email address, or anything else like that, in order to download their freebies!