Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 / Valter, Capriccio Baroque Orchestra

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Label
Aeolus
Release Date
January 18, 2019
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      SAINT-SAENS, CAMILLE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Capriccio Baroque Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Valter, Freitag, Negrini, Meldau
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 18, 2019
    • UPC
      4026798100971
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AE10097
    • LABEL
      Aeolus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

The Swiss composer Guy Bovet has created a chamber version of Camille Saint-Saëns' popular 'Organ Symphony', which increases the significance of the organ part to a true 'Symphony concertante' for organ and orchestra. The result is convincing and the Capriccio Baroque Orchestra presents the work for the first time on historical instruments from the time it was composed. Of writing this piece, Saint-Saëns wrote: “I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.” It seems he wrote the work as a sort of history of his own career- it features virtuosic piano passages, Romantic orchestral writing, and, of course, the sound of the cathedral-sized pipe organ.