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Saint-Saens: Duos for piano and harmonium, Op. 8 finale (video)

More about Performer, Artis Whodehouse: http://www.artiswodehouse.com/ Andrew Sun, pianist, and Artis Wodehouse, harmoniumist live, April 6th, 2014 in a concert presented by MELODEON at Church of the Epiphany, NYC. They are performing the Finale from Saint-Saens Duos for piano and harmonium, Op. 8. The concert, called "Masters of the Harmonium" featured Wodehouse's 1903 Mustel Art Harmonium, and also a magnificent, fully restored 1873 Chinoiserie art case Pleyel grand piano that was provided by KLAVIERHAUS of NYC. Camille Saint-Saëns has written several pieces for the harmonium, but none on such an expansive scale as the Duos Op. 8 for piano and harmonium. The harmonium part in the Op. 8 Duos requires an ability to shape and maintain the maximum volume of the instrument for long durations. Saint-Saëns deploys the harmonium in this manner to suggest an orchestra, around which he weaves characteristically brilliant, transparent and spirited piano filigree. ----------- Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (French: 9 October 1835 -- 16 December 1921), also known by his nom de plume, Sannois, was a Frenchcomposer, organist, conductor, and pianist of the Romantic era. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah (Opera), Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony). Saint-Saëns began his musical career as a musical pioneer, introducing to France the symphonic poem and championing the radical works of Liszt and Wagner at a time when Bach and Mozart were the norms. By the dawn of the 20th century, Saint-Saëns was an ultra-conservative, fighting the influence of Debussy and Richard Strauss while defending the reputations of Meyerbeer and Berlioz. This is hardly surprising—Saint-Saëns's career began while Chopin and Mendelssohn were in their prime, and ended at the commencement of the Jazz Age; but his image endured for years after his death. As a composer, Saint-Saëns was often criticized for his refusal to embrace romanticism and at the same time, rather paradoxically, for his adherence to the conventions of 19th-century musical language. He is remembered chiefly for works such as The Carnival of the Animals (which was not published in full until after his death, reportedly because Saint-Saëns feared it would affect his reputation as a serious composer), the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for violin and orchestra, the operas Samson and Delilah and Henry VIII (of which only the first is frequently performed today), the symphonic poem Danse Macabre, the Symphony No. 3; the second, fourth and fifth piano concertos; the third violin concerto; the first cello concerto; the first violin sonata; and the clarinet sonata. Courtesy of Wickipedia