Instrumental, Organ Solos, Saint-Saëns (composer)

I can say that Apkalna is very musical and that the registers and voicing she selects are varied and colorful. The scale ranges from a delicate chamber organ to a walloping fortissimo with floor-shaking... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…

[In Urbs Roma] Kantorow elicits vigorous playing, with sharp contrasts, and manages the imaginative die-away ending with sensitivity...this performance [of the Organ Symphony] is almost entirely... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is an appealing family feel to this disc…Geller exudes lyrical warmth and a perky rhythmic spirit in the first work, and in the second he uses the violin's wily flights of fancy to engage... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…

[In the Organ Symphony] Pappano brings us a drama in music that undoubtedly compels and raises the hairs at every turn. The only trouble is that it leaves one wondering whether Saint-Saëns really... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Fischer leads a superb, thoroughly enjoyable reading of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony…And although the three tableaux drawn from incidental music to Eugène Brieux’s play La foi are a roughly... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

There is more than enough here to excite anyone with a taste for spectacular organ pyrotechnics. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…