Nice treat here for everyone which comes courtesy of the Mercury Living Presence series. For me, this Paray/Dupre recording of the Saint-Saens 3rd is still pretty much unsurpassed. Preceding Munch with a first stereo recording, but lacking RCA's vast marketing clout, Paray bestows a magnificent idiomatic reading of elegance, grace and precision complete with an authentic French sound from the orchestra he had trained in Detroit (of all places). With prominent inner voices, Paray's lithe, supple, evenly-paced approach with restrained dynamics revels in the score's abundant coloration. The impact is somewhat abetted by a superbly crisp and detailed recording with remarkably precise stereo imaging that captures the clarity of the textures and invites understanding and appreciation of Saint-Saens' gifts of orchestration that the blurrier acoustic of Munch and many others tend of obscure.
The download link is a four part-er, because it's in .flac which is really the only format suitable for such a quality recording.
MLP - Paray [Part 1]
MLP - Paray [Part 2]
MLP - Paray [Part 3]
MLP - Paray [Part 4]
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