Premieres Symphonies: Bizet, Gounod, Saint-Saens | Alpha ALPHA1149

Premieres Symphonies: Bizet, Gounod, Saint-Saens

£20.85 £18.77

save £2.08 (10%)

special offer ending 18/12/2025

In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day

Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1149

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 22nd August 2025

Contents

Artists

Orchestre philharmonique de Monte Carlo

Conductor

Kazuki Yamada

Works

Bizet, Georges

Symphony in C major

Gounod, Charles

Symphony no.1 in D major

Saint-Saens, Camille

Symphony in A major

Artists

Orchestre philharmonique de Monte Carlo

Conductor

Kazuki Yamada

About

Camille Saint-Saëns was only fifteen years old when he composed his first symphony in 1850, which is known as his Symphony no.0 – his official Symphony no.1 would not arrive for another three years. Gounod was thirty-seven years old when his La Nonne sanglante was removed from the repertoire of the Paris Opéra by a new director; he swiftly restored his spirits by composing a symphony for the Société des Jeunes Artistes in March 1855. Bizet, aged seventeen, began work on his Symphony in C major that same year. Gounod’s symphony clearly influenced Bizet’s work, as Bizet had just completed a transcription of it for piano four hands.

This recording marks the beginning of a collaboration between the Alpha Classics label, the Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and its music director Kazuki Yamada, a great lover of the French symphonic repertoire and also music director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and the Seiji Ozawa International Academy.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here