HENLE SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No.5 F Major Op.103 (egyptian),2 Pianos 4 Hands

Piano Concerto no. 5 F major op. 103 (Egyptian)

Camille Saint-Saëns

Peter Jost (Editor)
Johannes Umbreit (Piano reduction)
Pascal Rogé (Fingering)

Urtext Edition, Piano reduction, paperbound
Two copies needed for performance
Pages 90 (VII+83), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Weight 367 g
HN 1144 · ISMN 979-0-2018-1144-4

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”.