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Camille Saint-Saëns: Chamber & Orchestral Pieces For Various Instruments
Camille Saint-Saens, Louis de Froment, Luxembourg Radio Orchestra
Camille Saint-Saëns: Chamber & Orchestral Pieces For Various Instruments
Genre: Classical
 
  •  Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (6) - Disc #2
  •  Track Listings (11) - Disc #3


     
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ANOTHER GREAT COLLECTION FROM THE GREAT FRENCHMAN
C. McGovern | Beacon Falls, CT USA | 03/03/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Just as Vox's 2-CD packaging of the complete Saint-Saens works for violin/orch. & cello/orch. gives you a solid third of this man's oevure, this 3 disc set of all of the existing works for piano/orch., plus "La muse et le poete" (a violin/cello/orch. rhapsody that didn't fit on the other VoxBox collection), Fantaisie (duet for harp/violin) and 2 horn/orch. works (plus one more oddity that I'll get to in a minute) gives you everything else of Saint-Saens' that wasn't nailed-down! What a bargain for a near-lifetime of artistic achievement! The performances on this disc of the concertos may not be the most solid (although I do like it better than the Phillipe Entremont version that's still available in some areas), but the forces are good enough to make this more than passable for a budget label release. Now the most extraordinary discovery for me on this collection is a piece titled "Cypres et Lauriers," for Organ and Orchesrta, and believe me, I'm glad to have the CD just for this! Even though it falls short of fulfilling one's craving to hear a re-creation of Symphony #3, it's a fine piece for its own sake, and virtually impossible to find on any other recording, so this is the perfect incentive for ownership."