François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles offer us adouble-sided portrait of Saint-Saëns here.
On one side, some of the most fascinatingsymphonic poems of French Romanticism arerevealed in all the shimmering timbres of theperiod.
On the other, we rediscover a composer whoenjoyed a good laugh (The Carnival of the Animalsalso returns to its original colours) when he wasnot involved in the early days of the cinema, with the very first music ever composed for a film.
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