Saint-Saens: Symphonic Poems Le Carnaval Des, Les Siecles, CD Suitcase Town Music also confusingly entitled The House

also confusingly entitled The House of Love

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his career to reclaim his down-home roots

Saint-Saens: Symphonic Poems Le Carnaval Des, Les Siecles, CD Suitcase Town Music also confusingly entitled The HouseFranois Xavier Roth and Les Sicles offer us a double sided portrait of Saint Sans here. On one side, some of the most fascinating symphonic poems of French Romanticism are revealed in all the shimmering timbres of the period. On the other, we rediscover a composer who enjoyed a good laugh (The Carnival of the Animals also returns to it's original colors), when he was not involved in the early days of the cinema, with the very first music ever composed