from Saint-Saëns: Organ Music, Vol. 2 - La Madeleine, Paris (CDA67815) 1 Prelude [3'08] 9 minutes 35 seconds 2 tracks2 Fugue [6'27] ‘O lucky Saint-Saëns! Lucky three times over! First, fortunate to have presided over Cavaillé-Coll's magnificent organ in La Madeleine; second, blessed with friends and pupils who revered him and ins ... ‘Recorded on the Cavaillé-Coll instrument in Paris’s La Madeleine, where Saint-Saëns was organist for two decades, this programme centres on the sort of improvisations that spurred Liszt to describe S ... ‘The preludes and fugues make a sharply contrasted trio: the first and last, in D minor and C, are grand in scale and conception; the second, in G, is much more compact and relaxed. Smith makes full u ... |