Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo: Bizet, Gounod & Saint-Saens: Premieres Symphonies - COMPACT DISCS

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo: Bizet, Gounod & Saint-Saens: Premieres Symphonies - COMPACT DISCS

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Bizet, Gounod & Saint-Saens: Premieres Symphonies

Artist:

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo

Label:

Alpha

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3701624511497

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-10-17

Number of Discs:

2

Camille Saint-Saens was only fifteen years old when he composed his first symphony in 1850, which is known as his Symphony No. 0 - his official Symphony No. 1 would not arrive for another three years. Gounod was thirty-seven years old when his La nonne sanglante was removed from the repertoire of the Paris Opera by a new director; he swiftly restored his spirits by composing a symphony for the Societe des Jeunes Artistes in March 1855. Bizet, aged seventeen, began work on his Symphony in C major that same year. Gounod's symphony clearly influenced Bizet's work, as Bizet had just completed a transcription of it for piano four hands. This recording marks the beginning of a collaboration between the Alpha Classics label, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and it's music director Kazuki Yamada, a great lover of the French symphonic repertoire and also music director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and the Seiji Ozawa International Academy.

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