Camille Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio

Gramophone 3/88: “Thanks to Capriccio, a work is presented here that is incomprehensibly known to only a few: the Christmas Oratorio by Camille Saint-Saens. The work begins with what the composer himself calls a ‘Prelude dans le style de Seb.bach’ – with a side blow to the ignoring of Bach’s genius at that time. Saint-Saens does not let any evangelist or narrator appear in the following, the whole work is based on a very lyrical, typically French character. Martin Flämig and his team deliver an interpretation on the highest level.”