Africa – Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 89
Parysatis – Airs de ballet
La jota aragonese, Op. 64
Samson and Delilah, Grand Fantasy, Op. 47 (arr. Alexandrew Luigini)
Tarantelle for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 6
Sarabande et Riguadon, Op. 93
Danse macabre, Op. 40 (song version)
Suite algérienne, Op. 60 - Marche militaire française
La muse et le poete, Op. 132
Ascanio - Valse (Finale)

One of a pair of distinctive Saint-Saëns recordings, made with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It features several rarely-recorded works, alongisde the premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’s arrangement for tenor and orchestra of the iconic Danse macabre – which was origninally a song for voice and piano to a poem Henri Cazalis before it’s expansion into a celebrated tone poem.

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Recorded in All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London from 14-19 January and 2 April 1993. Robert Truman plays on a Grancino instrument made in 1690.