Symphony No. 3 Organ

Product Description We are proud to present conductor Michael Stern's interpretations of these great works, captured in brilliant HDCD sound by GRAMMY® award winners Keith O. Johnson (engineer) and David Frost (producer). The Symphony has released four previous titles with Reference Recordings to great acclaim - Shakespeare's Tempest, the Grammy®-winning Britten s Orchestra, an Elgar/Vaughan Williams project and most recently, Miraculous Metamorphoses, which highlights composers Hindemith, Prokofiev and Bartók. Two additional projects have been recorded and slated for future release, including the music of contemporary American composer Adam Schoenberg (recorded in June 2014) and Gustav Holst: The Planets and Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool (recorded in January 2015). Review "This label's on a roll... The KCS may not be among America's elite ensembles, but there's a chamber-like intensity to the music-making, a sense of give and take, that i find most appealing." --Rad Bennett, MusicWeb, June 2015 "The resultant sound is resplendent and ideally captures the grandeur of Saint-Saen's music: The orchestra displays wonderful dimenionality. We hear it laid out before us in four dimensions: side to side and front to back, with air around the instruments...Most important for the symphony, the organ sounds deep, rich, solid, and clean. As usual with Reference Recordings, this is splendidly lifelike sound, with no artificial enhancement, close-up miking, or editing-console gimmicky." --John Puccio, Classical Candor, June 2015 "Some have come very close, but I've never heard such a well-rounded account of this impressive symphonic work. Under Michael Stern's directions, the slow movement glows with expressive touches and the final movement blows everyone else out of the water... Glorious music making reproduced with stupendous fidelity!" --Jean-Yves Duperron, classcialmusicsentinel.com, June 2015 Artistic Quality: 9 & Sound Quality: 10 "When it rains, it pours. This is the third recording of Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony in nearly as many months, and like the previous ones, it's remarkably good. The Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern withstands comparison to any of the competition." --David Hurwitz, Classics Today, June 2015 "The KC Symphony, with superb direction from Michael Stern, sounds absolutely world-class. The orchestra has the full, rich, romantic sound that is so essential for 19th-century French music. And there is visceral excitement, too. The musicians are on fire, and they blaze with self-confidence." --Patrick Neas, Kansascity.com, June 2015 "Even in a competitive market, this version has a distinct edge." --Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone, September 2015 "A program of music by one of the master French orchestrators, Camille Saint-Saens, features the new organ, while casting the Kansas City Symphony in a favorable light in terms of sonority, balance and color...remarkably precise articulation and pure intonation from all the instrumental choirs." --Patrick Rucker, Washingtonpost.com, November 6, 2015
ASIN: B00WUFBQ92
VSKU: DBV.B00WUFBQ92.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Saint-Saens / Kansas City Symphony / Stern
Binding: Audio cd
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Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case will show wear, and may be in library packaging. Ships fast!