“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 ...

His Carnival of the Animals is widely played and loved, but there’s a great, great deal more to Camille Saint-Saëns. As the Proms marks his centenary, we salute a composer of wit and compression who ...

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 ...

Saint-Saens’s curiosity was piqued by images of the lyres and citharas of antiquity, so much so that he wrote an essay on them, revising it several times, adding to it, and illustrating it. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saint-Saëns wrote a prodigious quantity of music – 169 opus numbers that include 13 operas, a dozen concertante scores, and a profusion of chamber and keyboard works. He is one of the best-known names ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cellist Pablo Ferrández is soloist in Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Paolo ...