Hi, Folks -

Wikipedia says:

The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic peak of his career. It is also popularly known as the Organ Symphony, even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out of four use the pipe organ. The composer inscribed it as: Symphonie No. 3 "avec orgue" (with organ).

Of composing the work Saint-Saëns said "I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again."[1] The composer seemed to know it would be his last attempt at the symphonic form, and he wrote the work almost as a type of "history" of his own career: virtuoso piano passages, brilliant orchestral writing characteristic of the Romantic period, and the sound of a cathedral-sized pipe organ.

Uploaded in 2014, here's an unidentifed orchestra under the baton of (I believe) Paavo Järvi performing Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78. It has the four-movement structure but technically was written as only two movements:

- Adagio – Allegro moderato – Poco adagio
- Allegro moderato – Presto – Maestoso – Allegro

The second movement begins at about the 21 minute mark.

Thanks to YouTuber Amazing Classic.

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https://youtu.be/F1_EDzHRY7M

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--hobie