Dr. Janette Fishell performs at the First Congregational Church, Los Angeles June 3 2012 скачать в хорошем качестве

Dr. Janette Fishell performs at the First Congregational Church, Los Angeles June 3 2012

The final piece in Dr. Janette Fishell's recital of June 3, 2012 at the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, California. She is accompanied by her husband Colin Andrews. The work evokes performance conventions in the days before radio or recordings, when organists were expected to play both standard repertoire and transcriptions. Saint-Saens had his own headaches with this practice, as his church, La Madeleine, was located close to the Paris Opera and his well-to-do parishioners often requested improvisations upon popular tunes heard the night before at the opera, much to his chagrin. It is in this spirit, and with great respect for Monsieur Saint-Saens, that Dr. Fishell transcribed the composer's own orchestral tour-de-force, the ballet scene from Samson et Delilah, played with her husband.