The French composer, pianist, organist, conductor and writer Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns is one of the great composers of the 19th century who shaped the musical life of their time — a fact that was disputed even in his native country until recent years, when his important role was finally recognized. His music combines the rigour of form and the solid expertise of the German musical tradition from Bach to Schumann, with a clarity, elegance and spirit that only a French composer, who also knew and valued the music of his country since the Baroque, could have. He was not mistakenly called a "classic" that he had, indeed, remained. Camille Saint-Saens composed only a few pieces for piano duet. The majority exist only in transcriptions, due to the composer himself, Debussy, Paul Dukas and the performers. The two Lithuanian pianists, initially trained in Lithuania and then in Switzerland (with Konstantin Scherbakov, among others), do not lack empathy, warmth, vivacity and brilliance in this programme, which reveals a large number of previously unrecorded compositions.