SAINT-SAENS Symphony No.3 BERNSTEIN MFSL 1-533 HALF-SPEED JVC Japan

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SAINT-SAENS Symphony No.3 in C Minor OP.78 "Organ" Leonard Bernstein Conducts the New York Philharmonic Leonard Raver, Organist EX/NM Used Mobile Fidelity Audiophile LP
Record Label: Mobile Fidelity MFSL 1-533
Raver/Bernstein's classic performance of Saint-Saens on the super collectable Mobile Fidelity Audiophile label. Half-Speed Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on High Definition Super Vinyl by the Victor Company of Japan, these are among the finest recordings ever produced and very limited in quantity.
Album jacket shows very little wear. Corners are not completely sharp. Vinyl is as new.
Side 1 Adagio Allegro Moderato
Side 2 II Allegro Moderato Presto, Maestoso
The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career. It is also popularly known as the "Organ Symphony", even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out of four use the pipe organ. The French title of the work is more accurate: Symphonie No. 3 "avec orgue" (with organ).
Of composing the work Saint-Saëns said "I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again." The composer seemed to know it would be his last attempt at the symphonic form, and he wrote the work almost as a type of "history" of his own career: virtuoso piano passages, brilliant orchestral writing characteristic of the Romantic period, and the sound of a cathedral-sized pipe organ.
The symphony was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in England, and the first performance was given in London on 19 May 1886, at St James's Hall, conducted by the composer. After the death of his friend Franz Liszt on 31 July 1886, Saint-Saëns dedicated the work to Liszt's memory. The composer also conducted the French premiere in January 1887.
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