11.7.2011 - Saint Saëns [REPEAT]

[gradus]

Lovely to hear the Havanaise today, S-S certainly had a fine lyric gift.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

this may be of interest from back in 2004 when Steven Isserlis was championing S-S

[Op. XXXIX]

I was forgetting that piece! I can take the slow movement, viscous as it is, but once we hit The Chord at the start of the finale we are on compositional auto-pilot.

Funny, just now listening to the Munch recording, I do not see the 'auto-pilot' at all. Horses for courses, or whatever they say?