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While himself no conventional kind of Christian believer, Saint-Saëns worked as a church organist for much of his prodigiously long life and career. While still a teenager he won the premier prix for organ at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1857, at the age of 22, he was appointed as titular organist to the church of the Madeleine in Paris, where he remained until 1877; it was there that Liszt heard him improvising and hailed him as the greatest organist in the world. His output for the organ is no less subtly German-accented than much of his orchestral music, influenced by Schumann and Mendelssohn as well as disciplined by his comprehensive study of Bach and Beethoven as a child. While publicly maintaining an attitude of skepticism towards Wagner, he nonetheless wrote with a chromatic intensity which finds a natural home in the incense-soaked world of pieces such as the Elévation et Communion and the E major Offertoire. Other reflective works include a trio of Rhapsodies on Breton themes, Op 8, which invite comparison with similar folksong-based organ pieces by Vaughan Williams. Saint-Saëns understood how to exploit the full spectrum of tonal colors available on the instruments designed by the greatest organ builder of his age, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and even the apparently abstract designs of his many Preludes and Fugues invite the kind of swirling mists and brilliant sunshine evoked by Michele Savino on this newly recorded collection. The composer's gifts as a colorist on the organ reach the summit of their expression in a collection of Seven Improvisations which, like much else here, deserves to be better known.
Title: Saint-Saens: Comp Music Organ
Format: CD
Release Date: 07 Jan 2022
Artist: Michele Savino
Sku: 2665247
Catalogue No: BRLT96219.2
Category: Classical
DISC 1
1 Camille Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie No. 1 in E-Flat Major
2 Camille Saint-Saëns: Bénédiction nuptiale in F Major, Op. 9
3 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Rhapsodies on Bretons Themes, Op. 7: I. Rhapsodie No. 1
4 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Rhapsodies on Bretons Themes, Op. 7: II. Rhapsodie No. 2
5 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Rhapsodies on Bretons Themes, Op. 7: III. Rhapsodie No. 3
6 Camille Saint-Saëns: Theme, Variations & Choral on le dies irae
7 Camille Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie No. 2 in D-Flat Major, Op. 101
DISC 2
1 Camille Saint-Saëns: Marche religieuse in F Major, Op. 107
2 Camille Saint-Saëns: Offertoire
3 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: I. Marche – Cortège
4 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: II. Interlude – Fugué
5 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: III. Offertoire
6 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: IV. Procession
7 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: V. Elévation
8 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: VI. Offertoire
9 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: VII. Ave verum
10 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: VIII. Offertoire
11 Camille Saint-Saëns: 9 Pieces for Organ or Harmonium: IX. Elévation
12 Camille Saint-Saëns: Prélude in F Major
13 Camille Saint-Saëns: Verset No. 1 in E Minor
14 Camille Saint-Saëns: Verset No. 2 in in F Major – Andante
15 Camille Saint-Saëns: Élévation, or Communion in E Major, Op. 13
16 Camille Saint-Saëns: Prélude in C Major
DISC 3
1 Camille Saint-Saëns: Cyprès, Op. 156
2 Camille Saint-Saëns: Choral - Prélude sur o salutaris hostia
3 Camille Saint-Saëns: Prelude in C Minor
4 Camille Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie No. 3 in C Major, Op. 157
5 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 99: I. Prélude in E Major
6 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 99: I. Fugue in E Major
7 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 99: II. Prélude in B Major
8 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 99: II. Fugue in B Major
9 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 99: III. Prélude in E-Flat Major
10 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 99: III. Fugue in E-Flat Major
DISC 4
1 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 109: I. Prélude in D Minor
2 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 109: I. Fugue in D Minor
3 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 109: II. Prélude in G Major
4 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 109: II. Fugue in G Major
5 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 109: III. Prélude in C Major
6 Camille Saint-Saëns: 3 Préludes and Fugues, Op. 109: III. Fugue in C Major
7 Camille Saint-Saëns: 7 Improvisations, Op. 150: I. Molto lento
8 Camille Saint-Saëns: 7 Improvisations, Op. 150: II. Feria pentecostes
9 Camille Saint-Saëns: 7 Improvisations, Op. 150: III. Poco adagio
10 Camille Saint-Saëns: 7 Improvisations, Op. 150: IV. Allegretto
11 Camille Saint-Saëns: 7 Improvisations, Op. 150: V. Pro martyribus
12 Camille Saint-Saëns: 7 Improvisations, Op. 150: VI. pro defunctis
13 Camille Saint-Saëns: 7 Improvisations, Op. 150: VII. Allegro giocoso
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