Opera, Saint-Saëns (composer)

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Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Orchestre National de Lille, Pierre Dumoussaud

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Gaston Litaize (organ) Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

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New. Je chante la nuit

Agathe Peyrat (soprano, ukelele), Pierre Cussac (accordion, voice)

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A Tribute To Pauline Viardot

Marina Viotti (mezzo-soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

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Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth

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Oksana Volkova (mezzo), Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian

Opera, July 2021, Disc of the Month

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Lang Lang - Saint-Saëns

Lang Lang, Gina Alice, Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons

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Revive

Elīna Garanča (mezzo) Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Roberto Abbado

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Alban Gerhardt (cello) & Cecile Licad (piano)

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Yuja Wang: Fantasia

Yuja Wang (piano)

BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, Instrumental Choice
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Maria Callas (soprano)

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Dance!

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Anita Rachvelishvili

Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo-soprano) Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Giacomo Sagripanti

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Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des Animaux

Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Michel Dalberto (piano), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), David Guerrier (trumpet), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Béatrice Muthelet (viola), Esther Hoppe (violin), Janne Saksala (double bass), Florent Jodelet (percussion)

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Ne me refuse pas: French Opera Arias

Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) Orchestre National de France, Fabien Gabel

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Michael Rabin (violin)

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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 & Tableaux Symphoniques

Paul Jacobs (organ) Utah Symphony, Thierry Fischer

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The Orchestral Organ

Jan Kraybill (organ)

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Guiomar Novaes: The complete published 78-rpm recordings

Guiomar Novaes (piano)

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Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune

Mathias Vidal, Judith van Wanroij, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Leo Hussain

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Voyages - Organ transcriptions

Olivier Latry (organ)

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017

Estrellita

Hee-Young Lim (cello), Chuhui Lang (piano)

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Véronique Gens (soprano) Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

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Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jun Märkl

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Je n'aime pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!

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Rhapsody - Varduhi Abrahamyan

Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano)

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Elīna Garanča: Romantique

Elīna Garanča (mezzo) Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Yves Abel

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Albrecht Mayer & The King's Singers: Let It Snow

Albrecht Mayer (oboe) The King’s Singers

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Ruhr Piano Festival Edition Vol. 18

Alexander Lonquich & Marc-Andre Hamelin (pianos) Steven Sloane

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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, Bacchanale & Symphony No. 1

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Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton

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Richard Bonelli (baritone)

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Dorothy Maynor (soprano)

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Oscar Shumsky (violin)

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Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue

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Artur Rodzinski

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Pablo Casals (cello)

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