Swaggering Saint-Saëns

[sawyl]

I'm never entirely sure where I stand on Saint-Saëns' piano concertoes, but it's hard not love his string writing. I've had Rondo Capriccioso stuck in my head since Saturday, when I heard Deborah Nemtanu's swaggering version on CD Review. This isn't Nemtanu but Janine Janson with Neeme Järvi:

Deborah Nemtanu, it transpires, can be heard in action playing the some of the obbligato solos in the performance of the B-minor mass from Notre Dame I posted last year...