Saint-Saëns - Romance, Op. 36
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns - Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedChristian Poltéra (cello) & Kathryn Stott (piano)
Why do these sonatas so rarely appear in recitals? Saint-Saëns's sensuous poeticism and ingenious craftsmanship are wonderfully combined in them. Despite Poltéra's elegance, it is the more... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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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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Müller-Schott has the technique to project the disc’s multitude of moods and to move seamlessly from virtuosity to sensuousness and back again...The Saint-Saëns Concerto is a joy from start... — More…
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Record Review, 25th September 2021, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Gabriel Schwabe (cello)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot
These performances and the recording quality are up there with the very best and, in some instances, surpass their rivals...Schwabe plays with a light heart and produces a light, airy tone to... — More…
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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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'Concerto!' was a Channel Four TV series that showed participating soloists in rehearsal, in conversation with Dudley Moore and Michael Tilson Thomas and, ultimately, in performance, which resulted... — More…
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns - Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Torleif Thedéen (cello)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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Saint-Saëns: Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra & Cello & Orchestra
RecommendedLiya Petrova (violin), Jolente De Maeyer (violin), Tatiana Samouil (violin), Harriet Langley (violin), Elina Buksha (violin), Maria Milstein (violin), Noëlle Weidmann (cello), Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Deborah Pae (cello), Pau Codina (cello), Wojciech Fudala (cello), Noëlle Weidmann (cello) &...
If the discs above have left you keen to explore Saint-Saëns's writing for solo string instruments further, then this 3-CD set, with soloists taken from members of the Queen Elisabeth Music... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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A delightful and thoughtful debut disc from the Orsino Ensemble...Supplemented by Pavel Kolesnikov’s insightful pianism, the Orsinos draw on its core quintet of leading wind players. The entire... — More…
