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Thanks Bob ... change of methodology? As someone who was born and lived in Montreal, I can tell you that the sound in St. Joseph's Oratory (that's the picture on the cover) is incredible --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_Oratory

Thanks Bob ... change of methodology?Yeah, it's been taking way too much time/work to do private messaging sharing during the last six months. (Although I'm certainly glad that my uploads have been getting such good response.) It's just that I'd rather focus on posting new uploads instead of spending 80% of my FF Shrine time just handling sharing requests. However, I don't want to expose myself to another potential total-loss scenario like what happened to me last October, so I'm using a dummy/2nd MEGA account to handle my publicly posted links. Before too long, I think I'm probably going to have all of my previous posts set up the same way. I've been using Dropbox for all my graphics/smilies, and Dropbox is going to drop their public-link feature, so I'm going to have to edit all my OPs to migrate the graphics anyway, so I might as well also do the links at the same time.
As someone who was born and lived in Montreal, I can tell you that the sound in St. Joseph's Oratory (that's the picture on the cover) is incredible --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_OratoryIt certainly sounds great when I'm listening to this recording. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42753709/Photobucket/thumb.gif

I almost requested the version I wanted, just out of habit! :) Thanks again -- can't wait to hear this.

Many thanks bobtheknob for sharing Saint-Sa�ns - Symphony # 3 in c minor, Opus 78, “Organ” - Yannick N�zet-S�guin - Orchestre M�tropolitain du Grand Montr�al (Hi-Res/STD stereo) ;-) I like the new upload system, too. ;-) I gave you a rep. Rated thread: excellent as always! ;-)

Glorious recording, many thanks. Would be nice to listen to the other Symphonies from SS in this fabelous sound. :)

Fantastic Symphony, Thanks a lot, very apprecciate

Great music, thank you!

Excellent recording!
Thank you so much, Bob!

Thank you very much.

Thank you! :)

Many thanks bobtheknob

please send links Surround Sound and Hi-Def Stereo, many thanks bobtheknob.

please send links Surround Sound and Hi-Def Stereo, many thanks bobtheknob.No problem, your wish is my command........
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I would like to listen this :-) Please send me a link for Hi-Def Stereo only.

I would like to listen this :-) Please send me a link for Hi-Def Stereo only.No problem, your wish is my command........
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Please send me the links for standard CD.

Please send me the links for standard CD.No problem, your wish is my command........
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received. thank you!

I have re-upped this package, and it is available again for download, in case anybody who didn't get it previously would like a copy.

All the scans/artwork and .flac files are exactly the same as before. I’ve added password protection to the .rar files just simply to keep MediaFire from snooping around, but otherwise there are no changes from before.

Happy listening. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B6U4A_vYuii5SHRvVkhuNHlRbFk

(The links are in the OP now, so there's no need to request links.)

Can't wait to listen to this. I do have the Karajan/Berlin but thought it was a little off but never knew why. The versions that you have posted always seem to be the exemplary. Thanks so much.

Many thanks, dear bobtheknob....

thank you very much !

Many thanks for all your great shares !!

Thank you so much!!!

Another fantastic Bob share. Thanks!

Thanks for the share.

Thank you!

Camille Saint-Sa�ns (1835-1921)

Symphony # 3 in c minor, Opus 78, �Organ� (1886)

Also with:
Guilmant�s March on �Lift Up Your Heads� from Handel�s Messiah
Vierne�s Carillon de Westminster
Widor�s �Allegro vivace� from 6th Symphony for Organ

Yannick N�zet-S�guin
Orchestre M�tropolitain du Grand Montr�al

http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~dylan/z/dylan/project/sacd-logo2.jpeg

5.0 Surround Sound - 88.2 kHz/24-bit - FLAC

2-Channel Stereo version also available - 88.2 kHz/24-bit - FLAC

Standard CD Audio Stereo version also available - 44.1 kHz/16-bit - FLAC

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B6U4A_vYuii5YkNyLWxRM0c4aGc

Label/Cat#: ATMA Classique SACD2 2331 | Year: 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

(This is my own rip.)




From its recording of orchestral music by Nino Rota it was evident that Orchestra M�tropolitain du Grand Montr�al is capable of excellent results, but this disc caught me off guard. It�s absolutely marvelous, certainly the best-engineered recording of the Third Symphony made in a church, with orchestra and organ in the same room, playing together in real time. The truth is that the music really needs the drier acoustic of the concert hall, particularly in the first movement and scherzo, with their abundance of nervous rhythmic figuration. Somehow, however, Atma has managed to capture the necessary amount of orchestral detail, balance the organ effectively, and still give a sense of �bigness� to the acoustic space without any problem of excess reverberation. The result is something of a miracle sonically, whether in stereo or incredibly natural SACD surround formats.

Happily, the performance matches the quality of the engineering. Yannick N�zet-S�guin directs a swift, superbly rhythmic interpretation�just what the piece needs. The strings articulate their rhythms cleanly in the first movement and scherzo, with delightfully dancing woodwinds and piano runs in the latter�s trio. Climaxes have plenty of power; the slow movement sings sweetly but never cloyingly, and the finale offers maximum excitement and sonic splendor with absolutely no unnecessary bombast. It really is as good as it gets, interpretively speaking, and the Beckrath organ at the basilica of Saint-Joseph (a huge space judging from the reverberation time of the final chord) has a rich, warm, pleasing tone that blends with the orchestra extremely well. Organist Philippe B�langer offers a very enjoyable program of encores to round out the disc, with Guilmant�s march on Handel�s �Lift Up Your Heads� a particularly welcome novelty. In short, all I can say is: Bravo!

David Hurwitz
ClassicsToday.com

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I agree with everything Hurwitz said above. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42753709/Photobucket/thumb.gif


For a number of years, I�ve owned recordings of Saint-Saens� Organ Symphony by Karajan/Berlin, Levine/Berlin, Munch/Boston, Barenboim/Chicago, and Dutoit/Montreal. All of these recordings are either pretty decent or even really good, but there�s something about each one that�s always bugged me, be it intepretive quirks by the conductor, the organ and orchestra being recorded separately, which results in weird recorded sound (especially on Karajan�s recording), or the sound quality just not being very good.

Now here, with this recording, we have absolutely stellar sound quality (especially in the Surround Sound version!) since the orchestra and organ were both recorded together at the same location, and a performance where N�zet-S�guin thankfully doesn�t try to show us what an interpretive genius he is by doing something weird with the music. He just stays out of Saint-Saens� way and makes sure his orchestra gives us a lights-out, world-class performance, which is precisely what this music needs.

I won�t be getting rid of any of my older recordings, but this newer version is now my personal favorite. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B6U4A_vYuii5LUVuTFhKY2ZBeG8

Happy listening. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1yAkuOGVN9n0by6dUFTB1t0hJtWQNhAMR

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B6U4A_vYuii5cTJleURuMU9QNDg

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B6U4A_vYuii5YXVlaTQ0Y2VUbUk

Download:

(The unrar extraction password is �BobtheKnob� (without the quotes). It�s case-sensitive.)

Artwork Scans + 10% Recovery Info = 11.2 megabytes
(Everybody will need this one!)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2e2xwbd4qx8qkdt/SS.Org.NS.Sc.rar

SACD Audio 5.0 Surround Sound Lossless: 88.2 kHz/24-bit
FLAC + 10% Recovery Info = 2.65 gigabytes download
(split into 4 parts, 700 megabytes each)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/p1cae9pmfi7jklc/SS.Org.NS.Su.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6aiaubw7kny61cx/SS.Org.NS.Su.part2.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/oxeg4c2944x561g/SS.Org.NS.Su.part3.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ierydrwgdyf7y14/SS.Org.NS.Su.part4.rar

SACD Audio Hi-Def Stereo Lossless: 88.2 kHz/24-bit
FLAC + 10% Recovery Info = 1.10 gigabytes download
(split into 2 parts, 700 megabytes each)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1qv4354rqez0k8w/SS.Org.NS.St.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/bdwy5um7hjanu1m/SS.Org.NS.St.part2.rar

Standard CD Audio Lossless: 44.1 kHz/16-bit
FLAC + 10% Recovery Info = 249 megabytes download

http://www.mediafire.com/file/469lfq0v7yexq0b/SS.Org.NS.CD.rar

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Please don�t just download this & disappear!
Say thanks & keep the thread alive!
Thank you!
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thank you for sharing...
but the links are dead!!!