Rare 1960 recording. Rene Leibowitz conducts the Orchestra de la Societe des Concerts Symphonique de Paris. Saint-Saens. Enjoy!

Here is a great piano version of this piece played by America's Greatest Pianist, Leonard Pennario:

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Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972) was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris in his teens and there began a long, illustrious conducting career. Particularly interested in contemporary music, he studied with Webern and Schoenberg and wrote a detailed analysis of twelve-tone music. A keen ear for instrumental coloration (Ravel was his orchestration teacher) was evident in his kaleidoscopic transcriptions of such works as Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C (for double orchestra!). But he is best known for his often highly personal renditions of many staples of the Classical and Romantic repertoire.

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