Thierry Escaich, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège & Jean Jacques Kantorow - Saint-Saëns: Symphonies, Vol. 2 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 278 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:14:24
Classical | Label: BIS
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 278 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:14:24
Classical | Label: BIS
The present album is the second of two recorded by the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Jean-Jacques Kantorow to commemorate the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns. On the first instalment the team offered us ‘deeply impressive performances in stunning sound’ (theclassicreview.com) of the composer’s first and second symphonies and the unnumbered Symphony in A major, but now the time has come for Saint-Saëns’ crowning glory in the symphonic genre: his Symphony No. 3 in C minor, generally known as the ‘Organ Symphony’. The work was composed in 1886, and Saint-Saëns had planned to dedicate it to Liszt but the latter’s death the same year caused the dedication in the published score to be modified to ‘in memory of Franz Liszt’.
