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Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28. Amazing virtuoso performance.

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include ‘Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso’, 1863 (the subject of the current performance), 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). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. After leaving the post twenty years later, he was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas. As a young man, Saint-Saëns was enthusiastic for the most modern music of the day, particularly that of Schumann, Liszt and Wagner, although his own compositions were generally within a conventional classical tradition. He was a scholar of musical history, and remained committed to the structures worked out by earlier French composers. This brought him into conflict in his later years with composers of the impressionist and expressionist schools of music; although there were neoclassical elements in his music, foreshadowing works by Stravinsky and Les Six, he was often regarded as a reactionary in the decades around the time of his death. Saint-Saëns held only one teaching post, at the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris, and remained there for less than five years. It was nevertheless important in the development of French music: his students included Gabriel Fauré, among whose own later pupils was Maurice Ravel. Both of them were strongly influenced by Saint-Saëns, whom they revered as a genius. The ‘Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso’ in A minor (French: ‘Introduction et Rondo capriccioso’), Op. 28, is a composition for violin and orchestra written in 1863 by Camille Saint-Saëns. It was dedicated to the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate, who performed the solo violin part at the premiere in April 1867. The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso was originally intended to be the rousing finale to Saint-Saëns’ first violin concerto, Op. 20, though its success as a solo composition at its first performance led Saint-Saëns to publish it separately. The premiere took place on 4 April 1867 at the Champs-Élysées, with Pablo de Sarasate playing the solo part and the composer conducting. Several arrangements of the score have been made, including for violin and piano by Georges Bizet, piano duet by Jacques Durand, and two pianos by Claude Debussy. It is no wonder that Camille Saint-Saëns found the medium of the solo concerto and solo showpiece so congenial: his prodigious musical talent was made up in large part of the kind of extroversion and dazzle upon which such works depend. His gift for melodies and the elegant line, his flair for orchestration — in total, his superior craftsmanship — were ideally suited to music in which depth was not demanded. The present work, written in 1863 and dedicated to the great Spanish violinist, Pablo de Sarasate, operates appealingly on two of the composer’s ideal levels: in the slow Introduction, the violin sings a lovely, plaintive melody whose lack of passion tells much about Saint-Saëns’ cool, elegant expressiveness; in the Rondo Capriccioso, dash, virtuosity, and songfulness combine in his most effective manner. With the present piece as an example, one readily admits that Saint-Saëns did indeed understand the art of music. This performance is by the virtuoso Korean violinist Soojin Han, performing with the KBS Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Soojin Han, born in Korea in 1986, moved to the UK when she was aged two. She began the violin at the age of eight and entered the Yehudi Menuhin School before moving to the Purcell School to study with Felix Andrievsky. She continued her studies at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Soojin Han performs a considerable amount of concerts, mainly in the British capital, where she won a competition for a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra: for her performance of Jean Sibelius’s Concerto Besides the Barbican Centre Hall, she has performed at the Royal Festival Hall and the Wigmore Hall. She also tours in other countries of Europe and the USA. Please contact us if you are interested in organising a concert performance by Soojin Han in your country and we shall get back to you to establish what it may be possible to arrange. Contact email: [email protected] The KBS Symphony Orchestra is a prominent symphony orchestra based in South Korea. The guest conductor for this performance is Christoph Eschenbach, a German pianist and conductor.