Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 1-5
There is a lot of really enjoyable music here. I remember  organizing a performance of the Fifth Piano Concerto (subtitled "The  Egyptian") when I was repertoire committee chairman for a local community  orchestra. We found it not only very playable for all of us amateurs in the  orchestra, but it simply blew the audience away. It's a real find. Both the  Second and Fourth concertos have been popular favorites for more than a century,  but they seemed to have vanished sight in the past couple of decades. It was our  loss, but no more. And the Fifth Piano Concerto, even when played by amateurs,  can blow an audience away. At two discs for the price of one, these fine  performances offer listeners a great chance to know this charming and vivacious  music at little or no risk at all. So why hesitate?--David Hurwitz