In the glory days of conductor Maurice Abravanel, the Utah Symphony was a fixture in any American collection of symphonic music, and even in many beyond that country's shores. The group hasn't been heard much on recordings in the 21st century, so it's a delight to find that under Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer, it hasn't lost a step. Fischer and the orchestra have launched a Saint-Saëns cycle, which is all to the good, and it includes obscure orchestral works along with the numbered symphonies, which is even better. The ...
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In the glory days of conductor Maurice Abravanel, the Utah Symphony was a fixture in any American collection of symphonic music, and even in many beyond that country's shores. The group hasn't been heard much on recordings in the 21st century, so it's a delight to find that under Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer, it hasn't lost a step. Fischer and the orchestra have launched a Saint-Saëns cycle, which is all to the good, and it includes obscure orchestral works along with the numbered symphonies, which is even better. The main attraction here, the Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op 78 ("Organ"), gets a clean, shiny performance with an electric organ at Salt Lake City's Abravanel Hall, in the hands of Paul Jacobs, actually providing the atmospheric wash Saint-Saëns had in mind more effectively than a bigger instrument might have. The highlight is the little-heard Trois tableaux symphoniques d'après La foi, Op. 130, a three-movement suite made by the composer from incidental music he wrote for a play....
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