Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).
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Fantasie for Violin and Harp in A major, Op. 124 (1907) adapted for Flute
Dedication: Marianne (b. 1865) and Clara Eissler (b. 1868)
Angela Jones-Reus, flute and Renie Yamahata, harp
Saint-Saëns wrote the single-movement Fantaisie for two sisters, the violinist Marianne Eisler and the harpist Clara Eisler. Like Villa-Lobos, he was interested in the possibilities when two instruments of very different timbres are paired. In this inventive, atmospheric work - which is filled with flowing melodies and bravura turns for both instrumentalists - the flute and the harp engage each other in an ever-changing pas de deux. At first, in the opening Poco allegretto, they take the roles expected of them, with the violin rising melodiously over the harp’s rippling arpeggios. From this gentlest of openings, as the music progresses through its five sections, the interactions grow in complexity. In the middle section, Vivo e grazioso, which begins with the violin skittering playfully over harp chords, the two relate more as equal partners. In the wonderfully paced Andante con moto, the harp keeps up an obsessive ostinato over which the violin weaves increasingly elaborate flourishes and the music grows in intensity. Throughout, there’s a silky smoothness to Saint-Saëns’s touch as he leads his duo from calm, through playfulness, whimsy, and passion, back to calm with a return to the balance and clarity of the opening.
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