Artist: Clelia Iruzun
Album: Oswald, Saint-Saëns & Nepomuceno: Piano Works
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:11:53
Total Tracks: 10
Total Size: 1,09 GB

Tracklist:

1. Clelia Iruzun – I. Allegro un poco agitato (14:56)
2. Clelia Iruzun – II. Adagio (07:57)
3. Clelia Iruzun – III. Allegro (07:01)
4. Clelia Iruzun – I. Allegro animato (11:26)
5. Clelia Iruzun – II. Andante (10:53)
6. Clelia Iruzun – III. Molto allegro (06:29)
7. Clelia Iruzun – I. Prélude (01:15)
8. Clelia Iruzun – II. Menuet (04:05)
9. Clelia Iruzun – III. Air (04:20)
10. Clelia Iruzun – IV. Rigaudon (03:29)

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SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the return of the acclaimed partnership of pianist Clélia Iruzun and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen with two colourful late-19th-century Romantic Piano Concertos from Brazil and France: Henrique Oswalds G minor Piano Concerto, Op.10 and the Fifth Piano Concerto in F major (Op.103) by Camille Saint-Saëns.Iruzun’s Brazilian compatriot Henrique Oswald shared a long friendship with Camille Saint-Saëns based on mutual admiration for each other as composers and pianists. They occasionally performed together some of Saint-Saëns’ music for two pianos in public recitals.

Saint-Saëns’ exotic Fifth Piano Concerto, the Egyptian, was composed during a North African holiday in 1896. Combining complex piano writing with a deft lightness of touch, it boasts a lyrical main theme (described by Saint-Saëns as “a Nubian love song”), hypnotic echoes of the gamelan and a finale bursting with virtuosity.

Oswald’s Piano Concerto was composed in Italy a decade before Saint-Saëns’ Egyptian. With bravura passages recalling Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto, its richly Romantic vein carries allusions to Fauré while brimming with Oswald’s intriguing native Brazilian rhythms.