Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835 - 1921)

[LMcD]

CALA CD CACD1018 contains chamber works featuring woodwind by Debussy and Saint-Saens.

[vinteuil]

CALA CD CACD1018 contains chamber works featuring woodwind by Debussy and Saint-Saens.

... this one :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00000FXO7

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[teamsaint]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00019fn

This performance of the first Violin Sonata is no longer available, but I enjoyed it a great deal, as a newcomer to the work.
Any recommendations for a good recording? I have just downloaded the Chang/ Vogt, at random really.

[Jonathan]

Not any specific recommendations but I do like the double disc on Hyperion of assorted chamber works, including the mad "Tarantella" and the wonderful "Septet" (https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/d...c=D_CDA67431/2).

[hmvman]

Saint-Saëns was the subject of today's York Recorded Music Society programme and while most of the music played was pretty familiar, there was a fine recording of Carnival of the Animals in its original chamber form. It was the Virgin/Warner disc with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, amongst others. The stand-out piece for me, from the same disc, was the Romance for 'cello, which I'd not heard before.

https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/37426/Saint-Saens_-_Chamber_Works.htm

[John Wright]

I encourage all fans of Saint-Saëns to join the Facebook group Classical Music & Opera Recordings (1877-1950) https://www.facebook.com/groups/531123286963772/

I'm sure you'll be impressed to see/hear something that member JiHoon Suk decided to mess around with. We now have a 'new' sound film of French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) playing his composition "Valse Mignonne" (Op. 104) on the piano - the film is a combination of a silent footage (from 1914) and his 78rpm recording of the piece (from 1919). The results are incredibly convincing, despite the fact that the two elements are actually recorded five years apart.

(Note: This is not the first time that an attempt was made to match these two elements, as there is a YouTube video that was posted some two years ago which attempted the same thing. The JiHoon Suk restoration has two benefits over the other version - the video material came from a slightly better source, and the sound element was transferred and restored by JiHoon Suk from the original copy of the recording, pressed from the original metal part on a quieter vinyl pressing in the 1980s).

John

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Tremendous fun, Dave - many thanks

[teamsaint]

Just listened the Organ Symphony, and trying to work out why the fifth movement puts me in mind so strongly of Sibelius.
Must be a line through Tchaikovsky I guess ?