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

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Chandos
Release Date
January 29, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAINT-SAENS, CAMILLE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Mork, Lortie, Mercier, Malloy, Jarvi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 29, 2016
    • UPC
      095115516225
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5162
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Allegro non troppo -

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Truls Mørk

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    2. Allegretto con moto -

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Truls Mørk

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    3. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Truls Mørk

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    4. I. Allegro moderato e maestoso - Andante sostenuto

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Truls Mørk

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    5. II. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Truls Mørk

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    6. I. Introduction et marche royale du lion

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    7. II. Poules et coqs

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    8. III. Hémiones

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    9. IV. Tortues

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    10. V. L'éléphant

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    11. VI. Kangourous

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    12. VII. Aquarium

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    13. VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    14. IX. Le coucou au fond des bois

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    15. X. Volière

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    16. XI. Pianistes

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    17. XII. Fossiles

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    18. XIII. Le cygne

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    19. XIV. Finale

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    20. Wedding Cake, Op. 76

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi

    21. Africa, Op. 89

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Louis Lortie

      Conductor: Neeme Järvi




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