Pairing Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3 in C minor, "Organ," and Francis Poulenc's Concerto for organ, strings, and timpani in G minor is common enough in practice, but the growing popularity of Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva for organ and orchestra, Op. 36, may signal a change from the usual way of programming these works. The arrangement on ...
Mood music from Messiaen, anyone? With performances and recordings this fine, the offer is hard to resist, but the question remains: what mood? With Messiaen, it's often hard to tell. Or, to be more precise, it's easy to tell when the composer is calm or excited, but it's not so easy to tell what he's calm or excited about. Yet in this superlative ...
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