Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto No. 2 – Eric Lu / Markus Poschner

There is something triumphant and incandescent about Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, which he composed in less than three weeks. The frenzied cadenza that opens the score, followed by the hopping rhythms of the Presto, led a famous writer to remark that the concerto ‘begins like Bach and ends like Offenbach’.