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RE: Comments-Saint Saens Symphony No. 3 (Organ)-Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand Montreal (long)

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In Reply to: RE: Comments-Saint Saens Symphony No. 3 (Organ)-Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand Montreal (long) posted by johnreid on July 03, 2007 at 11:04:59

Again I tried to make it clear that Nezet-Seguin's overall "interpretation" is very good, in my opinion. It is that I personally place much weight on the 4th Section (least on the 3rd) and the execution with the weak organ did not cut mustard, severly spoiling the entire effort for me.

By the way, I don't believe Nezet-Seguin's recording is one of the few "where the organ and orchestra actually played together". I randomly pulled a half a dozen Organ Symphony recordings of the shelf and from what I can determine all of them were recorded with the organ and orchestra together. In fact, the liner notes generally went the extra step to explain the different from normal orchestra configurations that were employed to counteract the different pitch, timbre, and dynamics presented by the organ. Although one of the liner notes (Louis Fremaux with the City of Birmingham on Klavier label) generally mentioned, "controlled recording environment" even though the implication was that the forces were recorded together.

To be sure, I do have at least one recording, done on DG (with Dan Barenboim/Chicago Symphony I think), in which a big deal was made of the new technology to bring together the two forces, organ and symphony, that were recorded separately.

I'm pretty certain that the three performances that I compared in my comments were done "au natural”. And for sure out of the probably dozen Organ Symphonies I own the Nezet-Seguin is by far the weakest with respect to "execution" of the 4th Section.

Robert C. Lang

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I also have the Louis Fremaux with the City of Birmingham version of Saint Saens Symphony No. 3 - Teresa 17:18:21 07/04/07 (0)
on Klavier 180 Gram LP and love it so much, this will be my one and only organ symphony. BTW all the Klavier 180 Gram LPs are superb!

"Music is love"
Teresa

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