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Sep 9, 2021 · After the very contemporary use of the organ from James McVinnie the night before (reviewed here), the organ returned for the famed Saint-Saëns ‘Organ’ Symphony in C minor, the conclusion of a concert from the Hallé orchestra under Sir Mark Elder.
Jan 29, 2023 · In what is very clearly a symphony with organ, rather than an organ symphony, James McVinnie did exactly what Saint-Saëns seems to have intended, with his beautifully controlled low murmurs in the second section contrasted with the flamboyant final section where the organ unleashes its power.
It is popularly known as the Organ Symphony, since, unusually for a late-Romantic symphony, two of the four movements use the pipe organ. The composer inscribed it as: Symphonie No. 3 "avec orgue" (with organ).
Alongside his work in contemporary music, Mr. McVinnie’s focus is the organ and keyboard music of J.S. Bach. He makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances. He directs the James McVinnie Ensemble, a collective of virtuoso keyboardists dedicated to exploring work, often preoccupied with political themes, by contemporary ...
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Truls Mørk vc Louis Lortie pf Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Neeme Järvi (Chandos) 'This is one of those recordings where it seems invidious to look for faults and which just encourages you to sit back, relax, listen and wallow. Mørk brings his characteristic incisiveness and mountain-spring tone to the concertos, adopting somewhat broader tempi i...
Olivier Latry org The Philadelphia Orchestra / Christoph Eschenbach (Ondine) 'The organ shows its stature (the booklet tells us that, with 6938 pipes, it is the largest concert-hall organ in the US) with palpable depth in the first movement and majestic presence in the finale; but the real star of the show here is the Philadelphia Orchestra itself....
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Nash Ensemble (Hyperion) 'Saint-Saëns’s chamber music fares better in the concert hall than the recording studio, perhaps because musicians tend to listen less to academic name-calling (‘conservative’, ‘too prolific’) than to the music itself. The three late wind sonatas have received far fewer recordings than their status as repertoire staples des...
Florestan Trio (Hyperion) 'Well, the Florestan Trio have done it again – if this disc doesn’t at least win a Gramophone Award nomination, I’ll eat my hat. Indeed, such is the cumulative emotional impact of these performances that, I don’t mind admitting, I wept during the wonderful fortissimo climax of the E minor trio’s first movement – that even ...
Domingo, Meier, Fondary, Courtis, Ramey; Orchestra & Chorus of the Opera Bastille / Myung-Whun Chung (EMI/Warner Classics) 'Without doubt this is the most subtly and expertly conducted performance of this work to appear on CD, excellent as others have been in this respect, and also the best played and sung. Chung's achievement is to have welded the...
Benjamin Grosvenor pf RLPO / James Judd (Decca) 'In Saint-Saëns’s Second (the one that goes from Bach to Offenbach) he opens with a rhetorical grandeur before setting the keyboard ablaze with a burst of swaggering, supercharged virtuosity. He has technique to burn and his pungency and force are things to marvel at (Cziffra would surely have sensed ...
Christian Poltera vc Kathryn Stott pf (Chandos) 'The chief interest lies in the two sonatas. The First in C minor is, within the context of Saint-Saëns’s long life, a fairly early work, written in 1872 when he was in his mid-30s. It combines passion, energy and rigour in the two outer movements, with a central one that envelops a chorale-like theme...
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Saint-Saens' Symphony # 3 ("Organ"), is the composer's most famous instrumental work. In this article, we discuss the composer's outlook the symphony's structure, some of its most impressive recordings, and then some sources of information, both for this article and for further reading.
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What is Saint-Saëns’ “Organ” Symphony? It’s a symphony written by French composer Saint-Saëns cast in two movements. It has been a crowd favorite ever since its premiere in London’s St. James’s Hall in 1886 when Saint-Saëns himself lead the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
