Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de Guise Classical Harmonia Mundi

Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de Guise

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Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de Guise

Label Catalogue Number:
90261415DI

Release Date: November 2023
Originally recorded in November 2023

Genre:
Classical

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François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles offer us a double-sided portrait of Saint-Saëns here. On one side, some of the most fascinating symphonic poems of French Romanticism are revealed in all the shimmering timbres of the period. On the other, we rediscover a composer who enjoyed a good laugh (The Carnival of the Animals also returns to its original colours!), when he was not involved in the early days of the cinema, with the very first music ever composed for a film!

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“… As an entertaining concoction, this release is undoubtedly recommendable. Roth and company have created a mood that no one else duplicates … the listening experience was thoroughly enjoyable…”

Huntley Dent – Fanfare – May/June 2024

*****

Gary Lemco – Audiophile Audition.com – 13 November 2023

Editor’s Choice – Orchestral Section

“… a most rewarding release.”

Mark Pullinger – Gramophone magazine – December 2023

Orchestral Choice

Performance ***** Recording *****

“Roth feels free to be inventive – and does so with finesse.”

Roger Nichols – BBC Music magazine – Christmas 2023

*****

Guido Fischer – Rondo magazine (Germany) – November 2023

“…I am particularly impressed by the slender and agile orchestral sound. Roth makes music without any heaviness, without an ounce of pathos. The supple orchestral sound, the many colors and dynamic nuances as well as the rhythmic refinement work wonders in Phaéton. I have never heard the beginning of La Jeunesse d’Hercule as thrillingly mysterious as in Roth’s music, and he succeeds in Le rouet d’Omphale with equally magnificent refinement…” *****

Remy Franck – Pizicato.lu – 20 November 2023

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