Pascal Rogé

Some performers dread hearing their old recordings, or any of their recordings for that matter. Pascal Rogé's performances of the Saint-Saens Piano Concertos are still widely admired, and even he looks back on them fondly. He even remembers the instructions conductor Charles Dutoit gave the orchestra just before they played the first note.

Pascal Rogé captures that bit of the bubbly in the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saens (heard here), and each of the five Saint-Saens Piano Concertos. He recorded all five of the concertos with conductor Charles Dutoit in 1995 (Decca 443 865). The recording information is available at www.arkivmusic.com.