Saint-Saens, Moussa, Saariaho / Nagano, Montreal Symphony

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Label
Analekta
Release Date
October 30, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SAINT-SAENS MOUSSA SAARIAHO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Montreal Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Nagano, Kunz, Latry
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2015
    • UPC
      774204877927
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AN28779
    • LABEL
      Analekta
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - Allegro moderato -

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Olivier Latry

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    2. I. Poco adagio

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Olivier Latry

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    3. II. Allegro moderato - Presto -

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Olivier Latry

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    4. II. Maestoso - Allegro

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Olivier Latry

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    5. A Globe Itself Infolding

      Composer: Samy Moussa

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Jean-Willy Kunz

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    6. I. Misterioso ma intenso

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Olivier Latry

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    7. II. Lento calmo

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Olivier Latry

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    8. III. Energico

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Ensemble: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

      Performer: Olivier Latry

      Conductor: Kent Nagano

    9. Prelude and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H, S260/R381 (1st version) (arr. for organ and orchestra)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Olivier Latry


This album is the recording of the inaugural concert of the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique at the Maison Symphonique in Montreal. For grandeur, majesty and sheer tonal opulence, few symphonies can stand beside the Third Symphony of Saint-Saëns. The prominent contribution from the organ, the “King of Instruments,” provides an additional measure of imposing sonority to the work.

The entire symphony is based on the principle of continual transformation of a “motto” theme. This theme makes its first full appearance in the restless series of short detached notes in the violins, following the slow, mysterious introduction. The attentive ear will pick out this theme in its rhythmic and coloristic metamorphoses throughout the symphony – at varying times flowing and lyrical, detached and fragmented, broad and noble, or agitated and restless.

Olivier Latry is organist at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and organ professor at the Paris Conservatory. His appointment to France’s premier cathedral in 1985 at the age of 23 propelled him onto the international scene: he has appeared in more than 50 countries and on all five continents, as a recitalist or with orchestra.