How one immersive New York performance resolved the balance problem that has shaped virtually every live and recorded ...

“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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...