Cellist Pablo Ferrández is soloist in Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Paolo Bortolameolli, at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 4, 2022. (Dania Maxwell / Los ...
Ottorino Respighi’s Fountains of Rome portrays four fountains in music by turns gently rippling, spraying, splashing and ...
Camille Saint-Saëns wrote two of the most popular pieces in the cello repertoire: his First Concerto in 1872 and The Swan in 1886. This luscious and lyrical account of the concerto, with rich ...
The Capuçon brothers here light on two Saint-Saëns favourites – the Third Violin Concerto and First Cello Concerto — and, in league with that inspiring young French conductor Lionel Bringuier, they ...
When you hear Benjamin Beilman in Saint-Saëns' glittering Violin Concerto No. 3, you'll know why The Philadelphia Inquirer called this 29-year-old "monstrously talented." Performances will be held ...
Every time this listener hears Elmar Oliveira play the violin — whether it is a concerto, a solo recital or chamber music — he is elated by the magnificence of his playing and also a little saddened.
This is the first recording of the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall organ. Recorded live in March this year, the concert featured two of the great French organ showpieces – Poulenc’s “Concerto” ...
Fred talks with violinist Julian Rachlin about his new recording of Brahms and Mozart violin concertos, and about his musical mentor, conductor Mariss Jansons. Then we hear Jansons and Rachlin in ...
“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 ...