🇫🇷Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ： Caprice arabe Op.96

Written by Saint-Saëns for two pianos, this caprice offers refined color and an appealing sense of the exotic. Singing melodies intertwine with light, agile motion and delicate ornamentation, while musical ideas of contrasting character flow naturally into one another. In passages where the two pianos seem to converse, it is important to clarify the roles of melody and accompaniment and to manage register and pedaling so that the sonority remains clear. Alongside brilliance, supple phrasing and finely graded dynamics bring the work’s charm into sharper focus.