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2013 - Saint-Saëns' SYMPHONY No. 3 in C minor ('Organ') (complete, 36-1/2 mins)
The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic peak 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 composer inscribed it as: 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."[1] 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.
Here's Orchestre de Paris under the baton of Paavo Järvi performing Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, at Proms 2013. It has the four-movement structure but technically was written as only two movements:
