{"product_id":"oswald-iruzun-steen-piano-concerto-music-cd","title":"Oswald \/ Iruzun \/ Steen - Piano Concerto - Music CD","description":"SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the return of the acclaimed partnership of pianist Cllia Iruzun and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen with two colorful late-19th-century Romantic Piano Concertos from Brazil and France: Henrique Oswald's G minor Piano Concerto, Op.10 and the Fifth Piano Concerto in F major (Op.103) by Camille Saint-Sans. Iruzun's Brazilian compatriot Henrique Oswald shared a long friendship with Camille Saint-Sans based on mutual admiration for each other as composers and pianists. They occasionally performed together some of Saint-Sans' music for two pianos in public recitals. Saint-Sans' 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-Sans 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-Sans' Egyptian. With bravura passages recalling Saint-Sans' Second Piano Concerto, it's richly Romantic vein carries allusions to Faur while brimming with Oswald's intriguing native Brazilian rhythms. Like Oswald, Alberto Nepomuceno was a Brazilian who studied in Europe, later succeeding him in a prestigious teaching position in Rio de Janeiro. Modelled on Grieg's Suite from Holberg's Time, his Suite Antiga (Suite in the Old Style) combines Baroque style and Romantic attitude with a bewitching savoir faire.","brand":"Rock Band Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52234435231975,"sku":"SOMM276.2","price":27.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.triathletestore.com\/products\/oswald-iruzun-steen-piano-concerto-music-cd","provider":"Triathlete Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}