- Audio CD (Mar 26 1993)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Sme
- ASIN: B000003FEG
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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| 1. Symphony No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 78: Adagio; Allegro moderato |
| 2. Symphony No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 78: Poco adagio |
| 3. Symphony No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 78: Allegro moderato; Presto |
| 4. Symphony No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 78: Maestoso; Allegro |
| 5. La Mer: De l'aube a midi sur la mer |
| 6. La Mer: Jeux de vagues |
| 7. La Mer: Dialogue du vent et de la mer |
| 8. Escales (Ports Of Call): Rome-Palermo. Calme |
| 9. Escales (Ports Of Call): Tunis-Nefta. Modere tres rythme |
| 10. Escales (Ports Of Call): Valencia. Anime |
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This is another of Charles Munch's blazing collaborations with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the French repertory, and a fine example of how this conductor could take a warhorse and turn it back into a serious piece of music--serious but not dull. The opening Allegro is impassioned, the Adagio is intensely poetic and expressive, and the finale generates real edge-of-the-seat excitement. The "Living Stereo" remastering has restored the lifelike presence of the original recording and minimized the effects of tape saturation in the loudest passages. The glorious tone of the orchestra comes through loud and clear, along with a thrilling sense of Symphony Hall ambience. Debussy's La Mer and Ibert's Escales... make a generous coupling and are every bit as impressively performed. --Ted Libbey
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Munch/BSO.
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By Kevin Kw Lew
Format:Audio CD
This particular performance of Saint Saens #3 is my very favorite.... and I've listened to many versions (including a well acclaimed version by Paul Paray & Detroit Syphony in about the same time period). Munch's performance is bold, interpretive, and introspective, movements done at wonderful tempi. Great balance between organ and orchestra; subsonics of the organ are room shaking and you can even hear the notes! (There another version conducted by Maurice Durufle on a 60's Angel label, but if feel it is too distantly miked - everything's a shmear). On the Munch performance I first felt the trumpets were a bit too prominent but now feel it is the standard for all performances. The Munch performance I feel is sonically very close if not equal to to current versions, which is phenominal based on the time period it was recorded. Current versions are blase in comparison - merely typed or clerked by the performers. Again, I've listened to many versions. The Munch performance both moves and excites. Guess you can say I like it :)
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I haphazardly picked up this recording from my roommate's CD collection and was pleasantly surprised. Munch really gets the BSO fired up. He doesn't probe to deep, though, as Saint-Saens himself appreciated the power of a simple beautiful melody as the core of what is most important in music. Munch demonstrates this restrainted romanticism in the second section of the first movement of the 'Organ' Symphony. The strings do not overindulge and the organ does not intrude with a stop that is too overbearing. Excellent playing is turned in by BSO legendary principals such as Harold Wright (clarinet) and Roger Voisin (trumpet), the later being the most consummate French player to sit principal in an American orchestra with the possible exception of Mager, who preceeded Voisin. You will kow what I mean by "consummate French" when you hear his tight, lean, bright sound and unmistakable character. This is a great recording at a time when the BSO was a French orchestra under a French conductor. The playing is impassioned and especially clean for an orchestra of the 50's and 60's. Not to be missed.
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The alsacian conductor Charles Munch found in this Saint Saens's work the perfect road to show us once more, not only the inner incandescence of this monumental symphony, but also his endless atributes as conductor: virtuosism, elegance, enchantment, that touch of class, and the magnificent sound of the aristcratic Boston Symphony.
His playing is colorful, precise fullfilled with dionisiac imagination , expressive power and sublime sense of lyrism. His untired seek for revealing the essential inner facets of every work he conducted, made of him one true icon of the conducting craft.
I had the opportunitty for watching him in TV cable conducting fragments of the fantastique and these brief minutes confirmed once more why he has reached such place in the reduced group of virtuosi.
Please, acquire this record. And I swear you this will be just the point of start for you at the moment of enjoying the radiant presence in every recording that he made.
His playing is colorful, precise fullfilled with dionisiac imagination , expressive power and sublime sense of lyrism. His untired seek for revealing the essential inner facets of every work he conducted, made of him one true icon of the conducting craft.
I had the opportunitty for watching him in TV cable conducting fragments of the fantastique and these brief minutes confirmed once more why he has reached such place in the reduced group of virtuosi.
Please, acquire this record. And I swear you this will be just the point of start for you at the moment of enjoying the radiant presence in every recording that he made.
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Magnificent Recording
One learns why a CD such as this is listed as "an essential." The quality of the recording is so well balanced.
The Saint-Saens Organ Symphony is magnificent. Read more
Published on April 30 2001 by rodboomboom
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Sheer power combined with refinement
This recording was a remarkable achievement when it was released in the 1950's, and it is no less amazing today. Read more
Published on Mar 4 2001 by J. Buxton
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great music, bad recording
Listening to Saint-Saëns' Third Symphony, famous for the organ part, I constantly thought whether the other reviewers had listened with other ears to this music than I did. Read more
Published on Dec 28 2000 by Chris Honingh
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I Clicked, But Couldn't Get My Mouse To Make 6 Stars.
I have in my collection almost every recording of this symphony that has ever been released. Yes, Yes, Yes, this one is THE BEST.
Published on Sep 24 1999
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Yes, the 'Best'
By the way, it's Charles Munch, Not Ernst. A few years after this recording was made I sat in Symphony Hall, Boston, the year after he retired from the BSO, and heard him conduct... Read more
Published on Dec 24 1998
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