“… Jun Märkl applies himself to the music, its momentum, its colors, and its dramatic content with unerring sensitivity. The Residentie Orkest plays at a very good level, demonstrating the enormous quality of Saint-Saëns’ compositional technique, which many musicologists have called perfect. At the same time, they accused the composer of having composed just technically and not really musically inspired. This CD gives the lie to such critics. The balance and spatiality of the sound recording are also excellent.” *****