Camille Saint-Saens: Symphonie Nr.3 "Orgelsymphonie" (180g) (45rpm)Label: Reference Recordings, 2013 Saint Sans dedicated the written form of his officially third symphony to his friend Franz Liszt, who died a few weeks after the premiere in May 1886. The symphony was commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London, which had previously commissioned Beethoven's Ninth and Dvorak's Seventh. For Saint Sans, then 50, 27 years had passed since his last symphony. He claimed afterwards that he could not write such a work