I was playing piano in public when something truly special happened. A cellist came up and quietly joined me. Without saying ...

“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 ...

As far as Saint-Saëns is concerned, the two big works of 1886 were the Organ Symphony and the Carnival of the Animals. It's one of his most popular works, but Saint-Saëns premiered his ‘grand ...

Poor Saint-Saëns! He was blessed from childhood with a polished facility of utterance that made most of his fellow composers (Ravel excepted) seem like hysterical tyros by comparison. But somehow, ...

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 ...

The first concert of the year at The San Diego Symphony was a miniature French festival. Overseeing the proceedings was conductor Ludovic Morlot. Previously he was the music director of The Seattle ...

From the classical archive, 27 April 1909: Camille Saint-Saëns tells the Observer why he has Queen Alexandra to thank for the lifting of a ban on productions of Samson et Dalila The Opera at Covent ...

Halloween music has gone much the way of the holiday over the decades: accumulating camp and kitsch, confectionary fun, friendly monster-on-monster romping, and a sort of innocence that has made the ...

Michael Chioldi/Ellie Dehn/Hilary Ginther/Odyssey Opera/Gil Rose (Odyssey Opera, four CDs) Seekers of operatic rarities take note, this three-hour-plus recording is capably sung with grandeur Camille ...

As far as single-disc compendiums of Camille Saint-Saëns' shorter orchestral works go, this new release on the Chandos label buries the competition. Neeme Järvi may have been 74 when he made these ...