Brilliant caprices for the approach of spring (France)

 

 

 

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Caprice Brilliant, the finale of Camille Saint-Saens’ Third Violin Concerto of 1859.

This is a transcription by Eugène Ysaÿe  distributed under the title ‘Rare Transcriptions Saint-Saëns – Ysaÿe’.

 

 

Top of a commode of veneered pine, 1765, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, composer, 1835–1921, French

Eugène Ysaÿe:  1858–1931, violinist, composer, Belgian

Pascal Devoyon, French born 1953, pianist

Philippe Graffin, French, born 1964, violinist

 

 

Violinist, study for the Dance Lesson, c.1878-79, pastel and charcoal on green wove paper.

Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY