Gaston Litaize, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim – Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 “Organ”; Bacchanale from “Samson et Dalila”; Prélude from “Le Déluge”; Danse macabre (1976/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 994 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This celebrated recording of Saint-Saëns’ Third stands as one of the very few performances to challenge the acclaimed Munch/Boston version on RCA. It features playing of great panache (with a truly high-voltage finale), and if the strings in the first-movement allegro aren’t as tidy as some, Barenboim more than compensates by taking the movement gratifyingly up to speed. The big question for most collectors concerns the remastering, and here I have to say that it strikes me as an unqualified success.
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