Browse: Saint-Saëns (composer), Organ Solos

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…

Simon Earl, the Priory’s director of music since 2012, clearly knows his way around its well- equipped resources, as evidenced by this adroitly chosen programme. Nimbly alert in Andrew Carter’s... — Choir & Organ, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

these live performances showcase different aspects of this remarkable instrument's capabilities in tandem with orchestra. The Poulenc is generally a hard-edged performance, James O'Donnell dispatching... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 3 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 sewn... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 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…

The recording is first rate and frames the instrument perfectly in the wonderful Lincoln acoustics — Organists Review More…