Complete Concertos (New Talents Edition #3)

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Saint-Saëns’s concertante art rediscovered - Third album in the “Complete Concertos” series With this third album in the “Nouveaux Talents” collection devoted to the complete concertos of the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, a new and fascinating chapter in musical discovery opens. Building on the success of the first two albums, the Orpheum Foundation continues its ambitious project: the complete edition of all of Saint-Saëns’s concertante works - an undertaking that sheds new light on the diversity and inventiveness of this composer. Saint-Saëns’s concertante pieces are much more than simple displays of virtuosity. They are elegant, melodic and original works that showcase the soloists without reducing them to empty virtuosity. Saint-Saëns brilliantly succeeds in breaking with tradition and creating new musical dialogues between soloist and orchestra. This CD series, made possible thanks to the Swiss Orpheum Foundation and the Eppur si muove Foundation, brings together young soloists of international renown with the celebrated Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (ORF) and the experienced conductor Howard Griffiths - a musical partnership that has stood for inspiring collaboration and the highest quality for years.