Saint-Saens - Symphonies 1 & 2, Symphony in A major
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2460
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 28th May 2021
Contents
Artists
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de LiegeConductor
Jean-Jacques KantorowWorks
Symphony in A majorSymphony no.1 in E flat major, op.2
Symphony no.2 in A minor, op.55
Artists
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de LiegeConductor
Jean-Jacques KantorowAbout
By the late 1850s, despite his youth, Saint-Saëns was already well-established: in addition to his activity as a virtuoso pianist, he had been named organist of La Madeleine in Paris. He composed his Symphony no.2 in A minor quickly: from July to September 1859. The orchestration is transparent, and the first movement unusually features a fugue for three voices. Concise and constantly inventive, the work moves away from the Viennese models Saint-Saëns admired so much, with a finale reminiscent of the tarantella in Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony. The present disc is the first of two dedicated to the symphonies of Saint-Saëns and recorded by the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Jean-Jacques Kantorow to commemorate the centenary of the composer’s death.
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