Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-Saens's Organ Symphony
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"I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again." So said child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, intellectual, conductor and composer Camille Saint-Sa\\xebns about his wildly successful 1873 \\u2018Organ Symphony\\u2019. Famously featured in the 1995 porcine Disney film Babe, it\\u2019s still immensely popular today. But where did it come from? What was Saint-Sa\\xebns trying to achieve and how influenced was he by his Parisian contemporaries? With organist Anna Lapwood on the thrill of playing \\u2018that chord\\u2019 in the Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
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