With many composers you can say they wrote more idiomatically either for voices or instruments. But Saint-Saëns seems to have been equally at home in both media, so that whatever he writes is not ...

Ottorino Respighi’s Fountains of Rome portrays four fountains in music by turns gently rippling, spraying, splashing and ...

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 ...

It’s a great injustice that French composer Camille Saint-Saëns is most widely remembered for a mere handful of his hundreds of works. Ironically, the evergreen “Carnival of the Animals,” among the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Susan Tomes enjoys a dual career as a writer and pianist. Her book, A Musician's Alphabet, was just published by Faber and Faber. Tomes is also the pianist of the Florestan Trio, which has a new CD ...

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 ...