BaL 7.02.15 - Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3

[HighlandDougie]

Being a fan of all the above, this is the one that's got my "buy now" finger twitching, irrespective of what GN suggests next week....

I wouldn't hesitate, as long as you don't mind a big acoustic (Saint Sulpice). As is usually the case with F-X R, he brings a fresh eye to what is to my mind something of a warhorse without striving for effect. His dad's playing the organ, by the way. And the coupling (4th Piano Concerto) isn't half bad either. And it's not Herbert von Bloody Karajan either.

[Roehre]

There are 4 x Alwyn 3s to compare,would make a nice litte BAL.
Probably not many people would want the work in their library sadly

their loss

[EdgeleyRob]

their loss

Indeed Roehre.

[richardfinegold]

Box number 3 is due to be released in March.

Listening to it from Box #2 as I type.

[BBMmk2]

One of the few works of Saint-Saens that I really like. I have played thye finale with a brass band and organ and have a couple of recordings by Black Dyke Band and Grimethorpe Colliery playing . absolutely fantastic performances these. Infact the whole symphony says brass to me or wind band even.

[BBMmk2]

Being a fan of all the above, this is the one that's got my "buy now" finger twitching, irrespective of what GN suggests next week....

Strongly recommended then, Cali?

[Barbirollians]

I love this work. So full of the Romantism, atmospheric colours that you would expect from a composer like Berlioz. I have Sir Colin Davis's LSO Live recording and Andre Previn's recording c/w the Requiem But I fear tht these two may not be in the finishing line?

What work are you talking about ? I don't recall either of those having recorded Saint Saens organ symphony ???

[BBMmk2]

What work are you talking about ? I don't recall either of those having recorded Saint Saens organ symphony ???

I thought I had deleted the post Barbs, thinking afterwards I was talking about a completely different work. Apologies.

[Barbirollians]

I thought I had deleted the post Barbs, thinking afterwards I was talking about a completely different work. Apologies.

No problem I was just a bit baffled !

[Nick Armstrong]

Strongly recommended then, Cali?

Apparently - see others' posts... My finger's still twitching!

[Flosshilde]

can sound be spectacular? Is there a more appropriate term such as auricular?

Sounds like a mis-pronounced member of the Primula family



Auriculas in an Auricula Theatre - which, if Alain's neologism (is that right?) was in use, could be a radio play.

[BBMmk2]

When hearing this programme today, I noticed that AM said that a new release had come out but doesn't 'qualify'? Intere4sting I thought.

[Barbirollians]

When hearing this programme today, I noticed that AM said that a new release had come out but doesn't 'qualify'? Intere4sting I thought.

I think he just meant the BAL had already been recorded by the time it came out BBM.

[Bryn]

Well, already having the first choice, I have just ordered the Roth père et fils via ebay. Strange though that no mention seems to have been made of the fact that the organ part was conceived not for a Cavaillé-Coll, but, as Andrew Mellor reminds us, "an English-style concert hall organ in London", and that Saint-Saens offered the use of a harmonium as an alternative. So the big sound we are all use to seems to be far from the composer's aim.

[mikealdren]

So Barenboim,'s version is chosen and available in two forms, one being remastered. Wouldn't it be good to have a recommendation between them and to know which version is to be played tomorrow.

Mike