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Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des Animaux - l'Assassinat du Duc de Guise
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
One of his many virtues is that he’s not afraid of making his orchestra play very, very quietly; another is that, where a composer has not noted dynamics, Roth feels free to invent them, and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Truls Mørk (cello), Louis Lortie (piano), Hélène Mercier (piano) & Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
[Mørk's] noble command is ideal in the darkly blazing, virtuosic second concerto. One of our great lyric instrumentalists, he gives a deeply-felt, but never over-dramatised performance, a piercing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 1 & The Carnival of the Animals
Utah Symphony, Thierry Fischer
There are few if any signs that the classically-proportioned Symphony in A major is the work of a 15-year-old…It’s a remarkable assuredness that is admirably engaging in this lithe performance…A... —
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Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des Animaux
RecommendedRenaud 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)
'What hard things,' wrote Saint-Saëns, 'have been said against virtuosity!… The fact must be proclaimed from the house-tops – in art a difficulty overcome is a thing of beauty.' There are many... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2004, Disc of the Month
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Building A Library, September 2021, Recommended Recording
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Taken as a whole, it’s a painterly exercise in crafting contrasting moods and in shaping emotional immediacy...Muscular and mesmerising playing makes for a rewardingly satisfying listen. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony & Carnival of the Animals
Daniele Rossi (organ), Martha Argerich (piano) & Antonio Pappano (piano), narrated in French by Annie Dutoit (Martha Argerich’s daughter)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
[In the Organ Symphony] Pappano brings us a drama in music that undoubtedly compels and raises the hairs at every turn. The only trouble is that it leaves one wondering whether Saint-Saëns really... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Saint-Saëns: Works for Cello
RecommendedHenri Demarquette (cello) & Boris Berezovsky & Brigitte Engerer (pianos)
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Joseph Swensen
Demarquette possesses the ideal soundworld for Saint-Saëns - clean focussed, tonally pure and expressively agile...[he] and distinguished colleagues steer a convincing interpretative course... —
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Building A Library, September 2021, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux, Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard
