This ‘Best Of’ features complete works and in some of their most energetic performances. Mehta & Co raise the roof with their ‘Organ Symphony’ and Dutoit & Co have the best fun in ‘Carnival’. The recording is rounded off with two of the most popular pieces for violin and orchestra inimitably performed by Kyung Wha Chung.
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 ‘Organ’
Anita Priest, organ
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta
Carnival of the Animals
Pascal Rogé & Cristina Ortiz, pianos
London Sinfonietta
Charles Dutoit
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Havanaise
Kyung Wha Chung, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit