· Piano Concerto no. 5 F major op. 103 (Egyptian) · Only critical Urtext Edition · One of the most popular piano concertos by Saint-Saëns · Music influenced by middle eastern sounds · Fingering by the french expert of the repertoire, Pascal Rogé Peter Jost (Editor) Johannes Umbreit (Piano reduction) Pascal Rogé (Fingering) Urtext Edition, Piano reduction, paperbound Two copies needed for performance Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Cairo in early 1896; and secondly, the composer incorporated elements of Egyptian and oriental music within it. He even wrote later that “The second movement is a kind of journey to the Orient, which in the episode in F-sharp even reaches the Far East. The passage in G is a Nubian love song that I heard sung by boatmen on the Nile”.