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Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony

Live at the ѿý Proms: the ѿý Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Marie Jacquot in Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with soloist Rachel Mahon. Plus Bizet, Holmès, and Sarasate.

Live at the ѿý Proms: the ѿý Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marie Jacquot in Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with soloist Rachel Mahon. Plus Bizet, Holmès, and Sarasate.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Georges Bizet: L' Arlésienne – Suite No. 1
Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy

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Interval: Ian Skelly is joined by theatre director, composer, lyricist and French music enthusiast, Jeremy Sams to find out more about Augusta Holmès, a composer and also a mover and shaker in the cultural world of late nineteenth century Paris.

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Augusta Holmès: Andromède
Camille Saint‐Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’

Inmo Yang (violin)
Rachel Mahon (organ)
ѿý Symphony Orchestra
Marie Jacquot (conductor)

An all-French programme whose first half – 150 years after the composer’s death – celebrates the bright, exotic colours conjured by Bizet. As well as a suite from his incidental music for ‘The Girl from Arles’, we hear the fantasy for violin and orchestra featuring music – including the famous ‘Habanera’ – from his best-loved opera, reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate. South Korean violinist Inmo Yang makes his Proms debut in the seductive, mercurial mantle of Bizet’s Gypsy-heroine. Saint-Saëns’s spectacular Symphony No. 3 puts the 9,999 pipes of the Royal Albert Hall organ (nicknamed the ‘Voice of Jupiter’) in the spotlight at the climax of this monumental work, and there’s more musical drama from gods and sea monsters in Augusta Holmès’s tone-poem Andromède.

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2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    L' Arlesienne Suite No. 1

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marie Jacquot.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Concert Fantasy On 'Carmen' Op.25

    Performer: Inmo Yang. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marie Jacquot.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Recitativo And Scherzo-Caprice Op.6 ; Scherzo-Caprice

    Performer: Inmo Yang.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Sérénade de toujours

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Mary Bevan. Ensemble: Ruisi Quartet.
    • Visions Illuminées.
    • Signum Records.
    • 26.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Roland Furieux (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Michael Francis.
    • Augusta Holmès: Symphonic Poems.
    • CPO.
    • 1.
  • César Franck

    Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: I. Molto moderato quasi lento - Allegro

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin. Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Pamela Frank. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7 (Live from Verbier Festival / 2014).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Augusta Holmès

    La Nuit et l'Amour (Night and Love), from Ludus pro Patria

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Sommernachtskonzert 2024 / Summer Night Concert 2024.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Andromede - Symphonic Poem

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marie Jacquot.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No. 3 In C Minor Op.78 (Organ Symphony)

    Performer: Rachel Mahon. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marie Jacquot.
  • César Franck

    Prelude, Choral et Fugue

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Boulanger: Faust Et Helene Etc. - Soloists/CBSC/ѿý Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Thu 28 Aug 2025 19:30

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