The Organ Carnival

A regular at concert halls, Korean organist Shin-Young Lee has transcribed Saint-Saëns's famous Carnival of the Animals for the organ. Conceived in 1886 for a private Mardi Gras performance, this "great zoological fantasy" is presented as a series of pastiches depicting a wide variety of animals: lion, hens and roosters, horses, turtles, elephant, kangaroos, fish, donkey, cuckoo, birds, swan... It is narrated here, with the vivid and vivid texts ...