IDAGIO | Poulenc: Organ Concerto - Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" 5060498630832

Featuring

Yannick Nézet-Séguin
James O'Donnell
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Francis Poulenc
Camille Saint-Saëns

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Recording & Production

Both works on this album were recorded during the Southbank Centre's "Pull Out All The Stops" festival, which launched the refurbished Royal Festival Hall organ.

Performer Biography

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the conductor, has been Music Director of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012 and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra since 2008.

Performer Biography

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been the Resident Symphony Orchestra at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall since 1992 and is also Resident at Glyndebourne Festival Opera for 50 years.

Performer Biography

James O'Donnell, the organist, has been Organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey since 2000, responsible for music at daily services and national occasions.

Instruments

The Royal Festival Hall organ's 'open-plan' appearance, with exposed pipework, was a last-minute decision by the London County Council leader, Isaac Haywood.

Instruments

The Royal Festival Hall organ, designed by Ralph William Downes, was controversial at its 1954 opening, with critics calling it 'large' and 'expensive'.

Instruments

The Royal Festival Hall organ was the first 'neo-classical' British organ, reflecting a desire to serve a wide range of earlier keyboard repertoires and heralding the Organ Reform Movement in England.