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Friday, October 19, 2018

Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3; Danse Macabre; etc. (Daniel Barenboim)


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Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
  • (01) Symphony No. 3 in C minor "Organ Symphony", Op. 78
  • (04) Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Bacchanale
  • (05) Le Déluge, Op. 45: Prelude
  • (06) Danse Macabre, Op. 40

Gaston Litaize, organ (1-3)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1-3)
Orchestre de Paris (4-6)
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Date: 1975 (1-3), 1978 (4), 1980 (5, 6)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4746122


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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10 / SOUND QUALITY: 9

This celebrated recording of Saint-Saëns’ Third stands as one of the very few performances to challenge the acclaimed Munch/Boston version on RCA. It features playing of great panache (with a truly high-voltage finale), and if the strings in the first-movement allegro aren’t as tidy as some, Barenboim more than compensates by taking the movement gratifyingly up to speed. The big question for most collectors concerns the remastering, and here I have to say that it strikes me as an unqualified success.

Many performances dub in the organ part separately, most disastrously in Karajan’s Berlin/Notre Dame digital horror show for this same label, and it’s usually not a very good idea. Here, however, is the exception that proves the rule. The organ at Chartres Cathedral not only sounds much better than its Paris counterpart for Karajan, but it has been very skillfully blended into the mix (and brought slightly more forward than in previous remasterings) and thus makes an excellent foil to the “take no prisoners” playing of the Chicago Symphony. Remastering also brings more back-to-front depth and a deeper, richer bass, thus reversing the tendency toward dryness that characterized the previous CD reissue on Galleria. Toss in the colorfully played and very well recorded couplings, and this remains a recording of choice and one that both deserves and sustains its status as a true “classic”. [10/4/2003]

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Saens-Symphony-Macabre-Bacchanale-Deluge/dp/B0000B09YY

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Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist. Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy, making his concert debut at the age of ten. He was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas. His best-known works include his concertos, his 3rd symphony, Danse macabre and The Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Saëns was enthusiastic for the most modern music of the day, although his own compositions were generally within a conventional classical tradition. Saint-Saëns' students included Gabriel Fauré.

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Daniel Barenboim (born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine and Spain. He is general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and the Staatskapelle Berlin; he previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and La Scala in Milan. Barenboim is known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, and his rejection of musical fashions based on current musicological research, such as the authentic performance movement. He has received many awards and prizes, including seven Grammy awards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Barenboim

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