Saint-Saëns - Le carnaval des animaux
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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... — More…
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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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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. — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Special offer. 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... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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New. Complete symphonic, concertante & sacred music recordings
Antonio Pappano & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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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... — More…
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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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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
and other works
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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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Building A Library, September 2021, Also Recommended
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Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux, Concerto pour piano No. 2, Havanaise, Le rouet d'Omphale, Danse macabre... (Les indispensables de Diapason)
RecommendedIgor Markevitch, Jeanne-Marie Darré, Leonid Kogan, Jascha Heifetz, Charles Munch, Bela Siki, Geza Anda, Philharmonia orchestra, Louis Fourestier, Orchestre national de la radiodiffudion française, Pierre Monteux, Boston Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre...
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Building A Library, September 2021, Historic Recommendation
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