Saint-Saëns: Complete Organ Works / Ben van Oosten, Cavaillé-Coll Organ, Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris

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Album Summary

Performer

• Ben Oosten (Organ)

Composer

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)

Notes & Reviews:

The infinite cosmos of French organ music is Ben van Oosten's realm, and he now has recorded the complete organ works of Camille Saint-Saëns in a sumptuous box set. He performs on the Cavaillé-Colle organ in Ste. Madeleine in Paris, one of the most beautiful instruments of its kind and an organ with a big orchestral sound on which Saint-Saëns himself left his traces for more than two decades.

Among his contemporaries Saint-Saëns was at least just as famous as an organist as he was as a composer, pianist, and conductor. Franz Liszt, himself no small talent on keyboard instruments, regarded Saint-Saëns as the greatest organist of his time.

Ben van Oosten stands second to none in the field of French organ music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The countless recording prizes for his complete recordings of the organ works of Widor, Guilmant, Vierne, and Dupré grace his impressive discography.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Église de la Madeleine, Paris, France (05/2012).

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Works Details

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Marche religieuse, for organ in F major, Op. 107

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 5 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: March
• Written: 1897

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Rapsodies (3) sur des cantiques bretons, Op. 7

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 20 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1866

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Fantasy for Organ in E flat major

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1857

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Fantasy for Organ in D flat major, Op. 101

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 12 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1895

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Fantasie no 3 for organ in C major, Op. 157

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 12 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1919

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Preludes and Fugues (3) for organ, Op. 99

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 4 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1894

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Preludes and Fugues (3) for organ, Op. 109

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1898

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Bénédiction nuptiale, for organ in F major, Op. 9

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 6 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1859

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Improvisations (7) for organ, Op. 150

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 36 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1916-1917

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Cyprès et Lauriers, Op. 156 :: no 1 Cyprès

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 7 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1919

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Elévation, ou Communion, for organ or harmonium in E major, Op. 13

• Performer: Ben Oosten (Organ)
• Running Time: 5 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1859