Saint-Saëns: Africa
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon
Geoffrey Simon and an assortment of excellent soloists provide an intriguing survey of Saint-Saëns’s lesser-known works. An undoubted highlight is the wacky arrangement of Danse macabre for...
Saint-Saëns: Africa
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon
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Geoffrey Simon and an assortment of excellent soloists provide an intriguing survey of Saint-Saëns’s lesser-known works. An undoubted highlight is the wacky arrangement of Danse macabre for...
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Saint-Saëns: Africa’ - One of a pair of distinctive Saint-Saëns recordings, made with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It features several rarely recorded works alongside the premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’s arrangement for tenor and orchestra of the iconic Danse macabre, which was originally a song for voice and piano to a poem by Henri Cazalis before its expansion into a celebrated tone poem.
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February 2020
Geoffrey Simon and an assortment of excellent soloists provide an intriguing survey of Saint-Saëns’s lesser-known works. An undoubted highlight is the wacky arrangement of Danse macabre for tenor and orchestra.
