Saint-Saëns: Symphony No 2, Danse macabre & Urbs Roma

Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No 2 is, by any standards, an outright winner and deserves to be much better known. Here, it’s one of two substantial works flanking a rambunctious account of Danse macabre.

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‘As in their superb account of the Organ Symphony, Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony’s performances here are polished and graciously articulate … there’s exhilaration, too, mind you—in the qu ...
‘There’s a new series of Saint-Saëns recordings from America that’s starting to get some positive critical attention, and for very good reasons … this is turning out to be an excellent reappraisa ...
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