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Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony; Poulenc: Organ Concerto.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony; Poulenc: Organ Concerto. Peter Hurford, organ; Charles Dutoit, Orchestre symphonique de Montreal; * Philharmonia Orchestra. Decca Originals 475 7728.
It seemed to me that Dutoit just recorded this Saint-Saens Third Symphony a few years ago, yet it was done in 1982, a quarter century ago. Amazing. Nevertheless, this 2006 remastering in the Decca "Original" series didn't impress me any more on my recent listening than it did all those many years ago.
Dutoit conducts in an urbane, cultured musical style, with everything neatly and effortlessly in place. He's not one to take many chances, and his manner meshes well with some kinds of music--Ravel, for instance, Debussy, and the French impressionists. In a big, loud, sometimes boisterous piece like the Organ Symphony, however, he seems too confined, too suave, too polished; everything is too well ordered, too perfect, if you will. And the ...
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