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

Autor: Saint-Saens

Editora: G. Henle Verlag

Ref: 0 05-1144

Isbn: 9790201811444

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”.