Piano Concerto no. 5 F major op. 103 (Egyptian) (Piano Reduction)
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Editor: Peter Jost
Piano Concerto no. 5 F major op. 103 (Egyptian) (Piano Reduction)
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Editor: Peter Jost
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This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Cairo in early 1896; and secondly, the composer incorporated elements of Egyptian and oriental music within it. He even wrote later that “The second movement is a kind of journey to the Orient, which in the episode in F-sharp even reaches the Far East. The passage in G is a Nubian love song that I heard sung by boatmen on the Nile”.