Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 & Organ & Bacchanale from & Samson et Dalila & Prélude from & Le Déluge & Danse macabre Orchestre de Paris & Daniel Barenboim

• 1 1. Adagio - Allegro moderato - Poco adagio 19:30
• 2 2a. Allegro moderato - Presto - Allegro moderato 07:27
• 3 3. Maestoso - Allegro 07:35
• 4 Bacchanale 07:19
• 5 Le Déluge op.45, Poème biblique 07:42
• 6 Danse macabre, Op.40 06:50
• Total Runtime 56:23

Info for Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 & Organ & Bacchanale from & Samson et Dalila & Prélude from & Le Déluge & Danse macabre

This highly esteemed 1976 recording of Saint-Saens ‘Organ' Symphony remains one of the finest available. Daniel Barenboim takes a joyous celebratory approach to this massive work, achieving an overall warmth and immediacy few conductors have matched before or since. Organist Gaston Litaize is clearly equally inspired, delivering a rousing extraordinarily memorable finale.

'I'm pleased to say the organ doesn't disappoint here either, the instrument's first entry as full and warm as one could wish for. Anyone who's heard this work in the concert hall will know that balances are problematic; there, and on record, the organ usually swamps the orchestra, but the DG engineers really got it right with this one... Barenboim's tempi are generally well judged and the Chicagoans play well for him. Those plucked strings are tautly done, and there's a surging lyricism.' (MusicWeb International)

Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

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