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CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphonic Poems. The Carnival of the Animals Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
1h58
2 CD
HMM902614.15
François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles offer us a double-sided portrait of Saint-Saëns here. On one side, some of the most fascinating symphonic poems of French Romanticism are revealed in all the shimmering timbres of the period. On the other, we rediscover a composer who enjoyed a good laugh (The Carnival of the Animals also returns to its original colours!), when he was not involved in the early days of the cinema, with the very first music ever composed for a film!
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