Instrumental, Organ Solos, Saint-Saëns (composer)
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGaston Litaize (organ)
Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
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Building a Library, February 2015, First Choice
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor 'Organ'
and other works
Noah Geller (violin, Noah Geller (violin), Mark Gibbs (cello), Jan Kraybill (organ)
Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern
There is an appealing family feel to this disc…Geller exudes lyrical warmth and a perky rhythmic spirit in the first work, and in the second he uses the violin's wily flights of fancy to engage... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Organ Music Volume 3
Andrew-John Smith (Organ of La Madeleine, Paris), with Adrian Bending (tubular bells)
Smith convincingly suggests that Saint-Saens intended this allegedly unplayable piece [Fantaisie pour orgue-Aeolian] for the self-playing instrument in the Grosvenor Gallery in London' New Bond... —
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
Thierry Escaich (organ), Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
[In Urbs Roma] Kantorow elicits vigorous playing, with sharp contrasts, and manages the imaginative die-away ending with sensitivity...this performance [of the Organ Symphony] is almost entirely... —
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Diapason d'Or, September 2021, Nouveauté
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Andrew-John Smith's clever programming alternates the Three Preludes and Fugues, Op 99, with the three Fantaisies and other works. Wisely, he begins and ends the CD with the loudest and most... —
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in Andrew-John Smith [Saint-Saens has] an advocate who understands just how to lift from the printed page and project this remarkably rigorous yet beguiling music. The combination of this artist... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th November 2007
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ Symphony'
RecommendedJean Guillou (organ)
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart
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Building A Library, February 2024, Recommended Recording
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Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony & Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Iveta Apkalna, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
I can say that Apkalna is very musical and that the registers and voicing she selects are varied and colorful. The scale ranges from a delicate chamber organ to a walloping fortissimo with floor-shaking... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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