Don’t be fooled by those well-known portraits of Saint-Saëns the bearded éminence grise—the two symphonies recorded here are the work of the young Camille, spreading his compositional wings and displaying a technical fluency far beyond his teenage years. In between, a certain musical menagerie roars, clucks, brays and squawks for attention …
‘The work [the Symphony in A Major] overall has an easy-going, retro charm that puts me in mind of Schubert’s early symphonies, and especially in such a deft and crisply articulated reading as this. T ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘A series we've enjoyed here on Record Review is coming to an end—the Saint-Saëns symphonies from the Utah Symphony conducted by Thierry Fischer … a reading [of Le carnaval des animaux] that goes ...
BBC Music Magazine‘A series we've enjoyed here on Record Review is coming to an end—the Saint-Saëns symphonies from the Utah Symphony conducted by Thierry Fischer … a reading [of Le carnaval des animaux] that goes ...