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Posted 1 Year ago
Banquo's Ghost
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Can someone recommend a CD of the original chamber version of Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals?

I recently purchased the Classical Express CD with the Ensemble Musique Oblique, but the duo pianists are almost painfully out of synch. There seems to be a version with Philippe Entremont and (the young) Yo Yo Ma, but I wondered if someone could comment on it and/or other chamber versions.

Thank you, Jon Butler
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Posted 1 Year ago
JasicaCHINA
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That's a very good one, it's on the Sony Essential Classics line, and the rest of the CD is fine.

Of course, with this piece the only difference between 'chamber' and 'orchestral' is if the strings are doubled or not...
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Posted 1 Year ago
mesaba
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I somehow acquired that one on cassette (the main reason being the Organ Symphony with Ormandy). It's okay.

Two to avoid: Bernstein (he talked even more than a KUSC announcer), and another one, whose performers' names I seem to have blotted out, where the 'armonica' part was played not on a glockenspiel (the usual substitution for the glass instrument), but as little toots on a mouth-organ!
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