Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Egyptian), Op. 103 (1896)

[@beninebot1]

Literally all of his concertos are great

[@halvard1218]

That third movement brings me to life

[@olivierbeltrami]

Similar in happy mood to the third movement of Mozart’s 17th piano concerto

[@ScriabinistheGOAT24]

I don’t know why but I’m absolutely OBSESSED with the piano at 11:21 and at 17:25! It’s a sound I have never heard before…

[@nicosuarez6962]

Yeah, it sounds like Messiaen's La Colombe :-)

[@basedscores]

Is it a modified version of dies irae, where I go I see dies irae

[@AaronPetitPiano]

First time I heard that, I was too! I was blown away at the sound. Its due to the range and balance of dynamics. It's parallel 5ths, but split an octave and a half, (so a 12th) and then LH is played much louder than the rh so it causes the ear to hear the LH line primarily and the above notes have a very "twangy" metalic sound.

[@TheModicaLiszt]

It is Saint-Saen’s way of imitating organ stops

[@miguelaguirre2873]

@@nicosuarez6962perfect example! love that ending

[@ClarinetMate]

Camille: Could you bring your clarinet in A as well there's a passage that I like 2nd clarinet: Boy am I finally getting an important solo 16:37 beep boop (x3) Camille: That'll be all you can switch back to your regular clarinet now. 2nd clarinet: DID I CARRY THAT DOUBLE CASE FOR THOSE 6 NOTES

[@TheodoreServin]

Saint-Saëns was one of the greatest geniuses in musical history, and this concerto is one of the best out there. Thank you for this score video of this magnificent piece!

[@dacoconutnut9503]

Look who I found!!!!!

[@e.hutchence-composer8203]

Omg the second movement is soooooo good. These piano concertos are so under appreciated and under performed. I just love it!

[@jmbechtel]

From second those strings drive that rhythm, chills spread from head to toe. It truly is magnificent to the ears!

[@denzelabarquez9978]

16:16 When I heard this concerto live for the first time, I was shocked to hear this oriental-like melody! For a French composer, Saint-Saens really did break many barriers in culture through his music.

[@saltag]

I love the piece, but unfortunately he did not. The intellectual undertone is just an Orientalist one that belongs to a long tradition of Anglo-French literati who actively exoticized and converted the East into the 'other.' This work is no exception, drawing on the same Orientalist tropes of effeminate sexuality and exoticism, especially in the second movement and the supposed quotation of a Nubian love song.

[@jyl-gw3wk]

@@saltag Do you want to travel back in time and tell this to Saint-Saens? relax and just enjoy the music my guy

[@benlizon]

are you arguing no composers deserve any critique for their missteps? we can still enjoy the music but we can also be aware of its elements that are subpar.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

@@saltag Woke, claptrap. Not needed here.

[@A440music]

@@saltag Actually, Saint Saens spent a lot of time in Egypt, loved the country, and was often inspired in composition by aspects of Egyptian music and culture. That is why this concerto is titled the 'Egyptian' concerto. Saint Saens was, contrary to your beliefs, being very proper with the culture.

[@jimhall167]

Thank you Maestri Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns!! This piece has enough shimmering beauty to light up my life for my next 74 years (I'm 74),

[@solcarzemog5232]

What a wonderful, unjustly underrated composer!

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Not at all underrated!

[@mhdfrb9971]

@@andrewpetersen5272 He should be on the list with Debussy and Ravel as one of the best french composer

[@wrrichardson]

@@mhdfrb9971 He is

[@edwardhoward5525]

What a discovery! How come I've had to wait 56 years to hear this!

[@TheModicaLiszt]

17:25 I was introduced to this piece when a very wise Liszt musicologist played this part to me, and explained how Saint-Saens imitates stops on an organ. He balanced the tone very well and played it slower, and so I am not used to the sort of playing in this recording!

[@ValzainLumivix]

Howard moment

[@TheModicaLiszt]

@@ValzainLumivix Indeed 😂

[@danielharrington4342]

I left autoplay open and I legit thought that I'm listening to Chinese traditional music played in piano or something haha. In any case, one of the best piano concertos I have ever listened to.

[@e.hutchence-composer8203]

That second movement is something special

[@jlapierremusic]

A lot of the time, the best concerti are those which are focused on the beauty of the music as opposed to the technical virtuosity of the soloist. This concerto is a fine example

[@rain-qb2xv]

My favourite Saint Saens' Piano Concerto, I love the way the piano and orchestra interacts at 7:30

[@Entertainer114]

Yes, he has passages similar to that in most of his concertos, but this is something special. I love that high woodwind part (and that two-note theme that recurs throughout the movement, from different instruments). Just lovely.

[@rain-qb2xv]

@@Entertainer114 Those trills at 22:27 tho

[@iguess37]

I don't know why concert pianist don't play this beautiful concerto . There are few people who played But i think it is so good and interesting like the concerto no. 2 Do you agree with me??

[@voxbalaenae5994]

Prokofiev's 2nd Concerto, Respighi's Toccata, Skrjabin's Concerto in F sharp minor and now Saint-Saëns' 5th Concerto are my favourite pieces for piano and orchestra EVER!!!Thank you for making me discover this masterpiece.

[@thekneecenter6355]

Listen to Tchaikovsky's piano Concerto Number 2 with Plentov

[@debjahdo1889]

Thank you for this list.. 💜🎶💜

[@debjahdo1889]

( To Vox )

[@jerry_moo]

This work's second movement has to be one of the best in the genre!

[@matthewmosca5002]

Thank you for posting this fine, musical and exciting performance, and with the score, too. Saint-Saens is only recently starting to get the respect and exposure that he so clearly deserves. His music is superb, in all genres. I remember buying the one and only recording available [vinyl]- that of Jeanne Marie Darre in ca. 1960- it had to be specially ordered and cost $25 -allot at the time. Wonderful that his works are finally getting a wider hearing. thanks

[@fidelcastro9112]

Absolutely love the motif at 0:48. Beautiful concerto overall.

[@marcalexandrefontenay9801]

Le plus aboutit des 5 concerti pour piano. Le dernier mouvement atteint au sublime ! Bravo J Y Thibaudet .

[@davidrehak3539]

Camille Saint-Saëns:5.F-dúr ,,Egyiptomi" Zongoraverseny Op.103 1.Allegro animato 00:05 2.Andante 09:44 3.Molto allegro 20:18 Jean-Yves Thibaudet-zongora Amszterdami Királyi Concertgebouw Zenekar Vezényel:Andris Nelsons

[@davidrehak3539]

Köszönöm az értékelést

[@davidrehak3539]

Köszönöm az értékelést

[@davidrehak3539]

Köszönöm az értékelést

[@alejandrosotomartin9720]

Such a wonderful concerto and rendition. Love so much.

[@kimsahl8555]

Yes Saint-Saens op.61 (Fransescatti) is one of the finest concerto ever.

[@chaoshead77]

11:22 piano solo sounds so cool

[@christianvennemann9008]

This is my first time hearing this, and I'm sorry that this is only my first time hearing this. Simply amazing. 😍😍

[@fulviopolce9785]

Ottima l'esecuzione di questo concerto, una delle migliori che abbia ascoltato.Mi piace il tocco morbido del pianista,quasi un senso di relax ,senza alcun stress emotivo.L'orchestra lo accompagna divinamente. Gran bel concerto,come merita sicuramente l'autore.

[@Mahlerweber]

Exhilarating. Thank you for post and for full score, too.

[@maxgamesst1]

It's like you read my mind, I just listened to this recording recently and loved it

[@ClassicMusicVidsUSA]

I did too!

[@amz_user_H]

its google, they actually can

[@ClassicMusicVidsUSA]

Thanks for uploading this! This is my favorite piece by Saint-Saëns!

[@davidyoung6331]

My great admiration to Saint -Saens for this wonder but rather unknown work. I admire that he could write the first 40 or so measures in a very, very tonal fashion. He doesn't feel the obligation to start out with notes outside the scale. He does, of course, change keys and use other harmonies later on.

[@basedscores]

24:45 for the first time (or might be the only time) i accept my defeat for saint saens and i say "i fucking love saint saens"

[@geronimodaloia6143]

What I love the most about Saint Saens is that all his pieces sound like an Indiana Jones movie soundtrack. I bet he could have been an excellent soundtrack composer

[@MCMeru]

Thanks for uploading this, because of you I always get to know pieces I wouldnt otherwise listen to. Im really happy to have clicked on this video, because this piece is amazing!

[@loicrenier7619]

C'est le Brahms français, clair, soliste et orchestre parfaitement en phase, jamais creux, toujours un plaisir pour l'oreille!

[@andrewpetersen5272]

No! No Brahms in this at all!

[@Lalulalala824]

One of the best musical experiences of my life.

[@gabrielcutrone7606]

I find this piece absolutely wonderful

[@matthewmosca5002]

A wonderful, musical performance [a little fast for me, I prefer the slightly slower, nuanced recordings of Collard/Previn, Roge/Dutoit or Malikova/Sanderling] and the performers, are both extremely gifted and totally involved. This performance points up how important the orchestra is in all of Saint-Saens' concerti- how the piano and orchestra lines are woven together. Both Nelson and Thibaudet are obviously enjoying themselves and delighting in the playing of this beautiful, colorful work. Saint-Saens is a great master- and so much of his music is not played often enough, at least in the US. thank you for posting this!

[@bartjebartmans]

why compare a live performance to studio performances? Thibaudet is an amazingly gifted pianist, effortless, affluent, brilliant. I would want to hear the pianists you mention (Roge I uploaded the other concertos) playing this live. At that level it becomes quite pointless to compare.

[@GUILLOM]

20:18 His etude no. 6 op 111!

[@kingurfay]

This is dope. There are some good French composers, and there is Saint Saens

[@isaacdrewes6926]

Amen Brother

[@jakubedwardschiffauermedraj]

Amazing indeed. But, honestly, other than Saint-Saëns and Bizet, who else is there in French classical music?

[@caestella9398]

debussy, satie, ravel..

[@ruperttmls7985]

Couperin, Rameau, Lully, Mondonville, Charpentier…

[@andrewpetersen5272]

@@jakubedwardschiffauermedraj Really Jakub? Poulenc, Ibert, Berlioz, Rameau, Couperin, Ravel, Debussy, Lalo, Chabrier, de Servac, .. Have your ears been recently tinned?

[@patrickpausch5896]

I Heard it today in German Classic Radio... I fell in Love ... It's so beautyful

[@MrPokehugo]

Magisterial piece of work

[@jaz_min..]

Simply beautiful 💕

[@karolpawlowski5368]

Very beautiful!

[@emilyhutjes]

I loved this, thank you. 🌷🌷🌷🎹🎼🎵🎶

[@andantino5558]

What a masterpiece ! This gives me goosebumps from beginning until end

[@rytp-doctor]

Genius!) I love it concert and Saint-Saens

[@jonathankupper1793]

*Astounding* concerto that I only had the chance to rediscover here (had previously heard it in college, but didn't really have a chance to delve into it like this video/recording allows you to do)... What an incredible and invaluable resource for musicians and music students. We would have killed to have the great compositions of the great composers at our fingertips with such convenience when I was in conservatory in the 90's. Back then you had to check it out of the score library and take it over to the listening library---assuming they had the piece you were interested in and/or it wasn't checked out already... I mean, sure, that doesn't sound *too* difficult; but such a hassle, comparatively speaking. Anyway, thank you SO MUCH for posting!

[@bartjebartmans]

Was not your comment I replied to. To say that Thibaudet lacks feeling or eloquence is not only ridiculous but also arrogant. Absolutely. Somebody says something ridiculous under my videos they get my opinion back. Fair is fair.

[@erakuci813]

Very very difficult to find a piece of Saint-Saens worth of a negative critique.

[@АлександрЯрков-ш2з]

Bravo brilliance concerto

[@nadiazayman779]

The third movement is jazzy, I think Gershwin listened to it before writing his concerto.

[@dawlims1334]

17:25 why the piano sounds like abell or xylophone or something?

[@saltag]

I was wondering the same!!!

[@seanfogarty5559]

It's partly the effect of the right hand being so much higher than the left.

[@Felix_Li_En]

Because Saint-Saëns is a genius !! 😆

[@DustyOldCowTown]

i think its a combination of the difference in dynamics (right being pp and left being mf) and the difference in ranges that gives it an almost harmonic/overtone sound. Happens around 11:22 as well. Thibaudet mentions that people are often caught off guard: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaLXqoyafJWpo80 . Truly a clever technique by the genius Saint-Saens.

[@ehsanmohagheghifard139]

Because he manipulates the harmonics (3 and 5) of the left-hand notes. that causes a change of Timbre, making a virtual instrument. I don't know, if he is the first composer doing it. in 20th century it was a common technique, mostly by French Composers. for example, Ravel does it in Bolero. the Spectral composers like G.Grisey took that as the main composing technique.

[@merrillbutler8628]

Beautiful

[@BenzemonstreENTs]

1:58 beauté 7:22 18:20

[@andantino5558]

12:59 This is beautiful.

[@mustaphadahou4901]

Sublime, indeed!

[@christianwouters6764]

For me this concerto is really served by seeing the score. Without it, it sounds good, but not "going somewhere". SS is neglected because of the succes of a few minor works of his that are smw kitschy, e g danse macabre and carnaval des animaux.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

You could not be more wrong in your observation. No kitsch in St. Saens. Such a foolish comment.

[@sztheunknown883]

Mvt.3 Let me remind of his sixth etude from his set Op111

[@jjj2563j]

sublime

[@kimsewoon9250]

thank you so much that you put music sores like this one. it helps much to practice my part in ochestra.could you put music scores for Camille saint saens piano concerto 2 as you did for nr5?

[@bartjebartmans]

I thought that that score has already been uploaded on KZbin.

[@kimsewoon9250]

thank you for kind reply. how do I not find scores of saint saens piano concerto Mr.2?

[@kimsewoon9250]

could you help us to put scores so that we can practice in our small ochestra?thanks

[@kimsewoon9250]

I found scores from Carlos li. but it shows message that is is blocked in my country. could you put scores saint saens piano concerto 2 op7 22? indeed we need it for our small ochestra for practicing.

[@mydogskips2]

@@kimsewoon9250 Have you checked out IMSLP, the International Music Score Library Project, it is the greatest resource for finding classical music scores online that I know of, they definitely have all of Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto scores. Here's the link to Concerto number 2. conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/c/cb/IMSLP21451-PMLP08149-SaintSaens-Op022fs.pdf But iI could just mention, while the 2nd concerto is probably Saint-Saens's best known and most popular piano concerto(for reasons I don't understand, I think other than the middle movement the music isn't particularly interesting) I would ask you to consider playing either the 3rd or 4th concerto, or even the first which is quite beautiful, idyllic and pastoral, they are much too neglected works in my opinion and are quite deserving of more frequent performance.

[@半中アルナ]

この作品は相当腕に自信がないとレパートリーにも出来ない難しい作品。

[@richardkownacki6017]

Hallelujah to that!

[@calebhu6383]

2:09

[@RaphThys]

I'm in love with this part

[@lilMissF0F0]

Wait why i never heard of this?!

[@cheapacreeps5677]

2:48 There it is! The obligatory cough

[@ezekielthiessen7080]

I wonder if Ravel heard this. Parts of the second movement remind me of the G major concerto

[@Wither5214]

Bonjour à tous les gens qui viennent du CNED, je vous souhaite de bonnes notes.

[@JOHNDOE-fr2jw]

i know the etude op. 111 no. 6 is here, but was he bringing the etude to the concerto or the concerto to the etude?

[@abendrot31]

木管５部と弦楽５段とピアノ２段の12弾で十分美しいピアノ協奏曲が書ける実例。そう書いていたら、第二楽章以降はそうでなかった。金管や打楽器が入ってきた。 自分はサンサーンスの曲をけっこう好きかもしれないと、最近気づいた。

[@alejandrinoo.g5100]

¡Exquisito!

[@nikolai5012]

11:28 piano mimics Javanese gamelan

[@jonathankupper1793]

Anyone know what edition of the printed score this is? I love the font...would like to be able to use it in my own stuff if there's a way to do it in Sibelius.

[@bartjebartmans]

You will find it on IMSLP

[@calebhu6383]

20:28

[@연지형]

14:42 ❤

[@paulotav2]

My favourite concert too...the inicial ambience is magical... ; this version is too fast!... Looses all the poetry and beauty [4.28...] :((

[@bartjebartmans]

Not too fast. Perfect.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Nope. This performance is the standard.

[@paulotav9066]

Just listen to Jean Phillipe Collard and Andre Previn, for example, and compare... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpi2n5V_hqyXiLc

[@frankborder]

Thibaudet righteously ghosted Nelsons in the last movement. Keep up Nelsons!

[@frankborder]

Boy it's painful. Can barely listen to last movement

[@danielgonzalezjr8350]

7:43 Paganini quote!

[@theslayer1120]

Do you mean the circle progression?

[@David-mq5sl]

I can hear Rach motifs and also a lot of structural and harmonic similarities to Moszkowski’s Piano Concerto in E Major - upon researching the Saint Saens 5 was written 3 years prior to Moszkowski’s - 1896 and 1899. Both great! Prefer Moszkowski’s though, more coherent and spectacularly jubilant

[@照豪竹内]

何故、サンサーンスが低く見られるのかがわかりません。彼に対して偏見があるように思います。

[@choijiwonballetclassmusic]

15:59 16:16 17:08 17:17 18:20

[@コリオリ力-v7d]

22:38

[@owengette8089]

11:20 doesn't even sound like a real piano

[@Boshy666]

13:00

[@robertocozzarin]

Vengono cambiati gli accenti della partitura!

[@Yhiith]

minchia frate calmati

[@classicalmusiclover4029]

Feels a bit like russian music to me. Especially parts of the second movement.

[@ohraider]

Its meant to be on the Egyptian side

[@ChillinDylan2875]

10:26

[@bsdkflh]

I've been an avid fan of your uploads, Bartje. But I have to say I have never been so vehemently opposed to an interpretation as much as in this concerto. It's my opinion, but the 2nd movement is especially maltreated here.

[@bartjebartmans]

You kidding me? Thibaudet is phenomenal. This is a live performance on top of it. Fantastic pianist. Don't even try to convince me otherwise, you would be wasting your time and mine.

[@robertocozzarin]

Questi esecutori non amano gli accenti giusti e la sincronia negli accordi

[@kingurfay]

It's not a crime, great interpreters often allow themselves slight changes of the overall huge scores

[@santadagger]

Oh Camille, you sneaky bastard! I was sure I knew that tune from somewhere at 21:08. Turns out it's exact copy of your Etude op. 111 no 6 (which I also get to know from one of Bartje videos). This concerto was published on year 1896, while your etudes at 1892... so yeah Camille, I see what you did there ^^

[@sophiepianoheart5189]

Oh I played that etude, its amazing. It was hell of a hard work. My teacher said it has something to do w this concerto so it was my homework to listen this :)

[@isrealistheauthor1489]

@@sophiepianoheart5189 Are YOU A SURVIVOR? SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: THE PRISONERS BIBLE. Google THE Book! Or FACE THE MUSIC!!

[@_rstcm]

And yet the etude is called Toccata AFTER 5th piano concerto.

[@Lancartel]

2:00

[@92.7mhz]

2:23