“For hours after Jean-Philippe Collard had left Camille Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto a pile of shards on the Hollywood Bowl stage,” Alan Rich wrote in L.A. Weekly in the summer of 1999, “I racked ...

Throughout the second half of the 19th-century, musical life in France was dominated by grand opera. Like his contemporaries, Saint-Saëns turned his hand to opera, but he also had an enduring interest ...

Recordings of Ravel's Piano Trio in F, completed at the start of the first World War, are a dime a dozen. Recordings of Saint-Saens's Trio in E minor of 22 years earlier are rather more scarce.

Lions, swans, donkeys and… pianists? Here are all 14 movements of The Carnival of the Animals, and what they’re about. The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns took himself quite seriously. So ...

There's much more to Saint-Saëns than the Carnival of the Animals, as these outstanding recordings amply demonstrate... Read more Saint-Saëns was one of the most remarkable prodigies in the history of ...

Saint-Saëns is known for Carnival of the Animals and the Organ Symphony - but there's much more to his music than just those two works. Best known for The Carnival of the Animals and his Symphony No.3 ...