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Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos, Carnival of the Animals / Jarvi, Bergen Philharmonic
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Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos, Carnival of the Animals / Jarvi, Bergen Philharmonic

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Details

Composer
SAINT-SAENS, CAMILLE
Artist
Mork, Lortie, Mercier, Malloy, Jarvi
Format
SACD
Label
Chandos
Released
Jan 29, 2016
Catalog #
CHSA 5162
UPC
095115516225

About



The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Neeme Järvi present this unusual collection of popular works by Saint-Saëns, for orchestra and piano or cello. Truls Mork, this season’s Artist in Residence with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, is the soloist in the two contrasted cello concertos. His ‘seemingly flawless technical command’ is tested in the suave, expressive, famous No. 1 as well as in the many taxing solo passages, huge leaps, and double-stopping flourishes of No. 2. The indefatigable duo Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier join in the posthumously published Carnival of the Animals, after a highly successful recording of Concertos by Poulenc with Edward Gardner, Disc of the Week in The Sunday Times. They offer the original version, which features a glass harmonica (normally substituted by a glockenspiel). Louis Lortie is also the soloist in the entertaining fantasia Africa, which incorporates folk tunes of the different countries in which it was composed and which is brought off with consummate zest, as well as in the most characteristic and probably challenging of the composer’s keyboard pieces, the Caprice-Valse Wedding-cake, written for the second wedding of the composer’s virtuosic pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury.

Review:

This is one of those recordings where it seems invidious to look for faults and which just encourages you to sit back, relax, listen and wallow. Mørk brings his characteristic incisiveness and mountain-spring tone to the concertos.

The Grande fantaisie zoologique receives one of its most successful performances on disc (sans narrator) with just the right balance of instrumental virtuosity, sensitive musicianship and, where the opportunity presents itself, fun. ‘Le cygne’ is elegantly phrased and gracefully paced.

Lovely program. Lovely recording. What’s not to like?

– Gramophone

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 Allegro non troppo - 06:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    Allegro non troppo -
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Truls Mørk
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  2. 2 Allegretto con moto - 05:05
    Track
    2
    Title
    Allegretto con moto -
    Duration
    05:05
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Truls Mørk
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  3. 3 Allegro non troppo 09:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    09:02
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Truls Mørk
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  4. 4 I. Allegro moderato e maestoso - Andante sostenuto 11:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato e maestoso - Andante sostenuto
    Duration
    11:44
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Truls Mørk
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  5. 5 II. Allegro non troppo 06:20
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    06:20
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Truls Mørk
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  6. 6 I. Introduction et marche royale du lion 02:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Introduction et marche royale du lion
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  7. 7 II. Poules et coqs 00:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Poules et coqs
    Duration
    00:41
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  8. 8 III. Hémiones 00:37
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Hémiones
    Duration
    00:37
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  9. 9 IV. Tortues 01:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Tortues
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  10. 10 V. L'éléphant 01:23
    Track
    10
    Title
    V. L'éléphant
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  11. 11 VI. Kangourous 00:55
    Track
    11
    Title
    VI. Kangourous
    Duration
    00:55
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  12. 12 VII. Aquarium 02:17
    Track
    12
    Title
    VII. Aquarium
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  13. 13 VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles 00:49
    Track
    13
    Title
    VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles
    Duration
    00:49
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  14. 14 IX. Le coucou au fond des bois 02:09
    Track
    14
    Title
    IX. Le coucou au fond des bois
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  15. 15 X. Volière 01:21
    Track
    15
    Title
    X. Volière
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  16. 16 XI. Pianistes 01:15
    Track
    16
    Title
    XI. Pianistes
    Duration
    01:15
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  17. 17 XII. Fossiles 01:14
    Track
    17
    Title
    XII. Fossiles
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  18. 18 XIII. Le cygne 02:33
    Track
    18
    Title
    XIII. Le cygne
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  19. 19 XIV. Finale 01:56
    Track
    19
    Title
    XIV. Finale
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  20. 20 Wedding Cake, Op. 76 05:52
    Track
    20
    Title
    Wedding Cake, Op. 76
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  21. 21 Africa, Op. 89 09:55
    Track
    21
    Title
    Africa, Op. 89
    Duration
    09:55
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Louis Lortie
    Ensemble
    Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi