SAINT SAË NS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Nicolas BALDEYROU and friends

Dear friends, I hope youre well and Im very happy to share this new video, where Im playing with great musicians one of my favorite violin pieces, introduction and Rondo capriccioso by Camille SaintSaëns SaintSaëns composed this work in 1863. Like many composers who write concertos for instruments they do not play, SaintSaëns welcomed the advice of the great Spanish violinist, Pablo de Sarasate, when he composed music for solo violin. They met when Sarasate was just fifteen and SaintSaëns twentyfour, and at the famous violin had approached SaintSaëns hoping that he would compose something for him to play. As if it were the easiest thing in the world, he had come quite simply to ask me to write a concerto for him. SaintSaëns, like Bruch, Lalo, Joachim, Wieniawski, and Dvořák in the coming years, was flattered and charmed by Sarasates request, and agreed at once. The first work he composed for Sarasate, completed that same year (1859), was his A major violin concerto. Four years later, he wrot