French composer Camille Saint-Saens was something of a snow bird. In the winters he liked to leave Paris for warmer climes. Egypt was a favorite destination, and in 1895 he finished up his Piano ...

Piano Trio No. 2 Fidelio Trio Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer The unusual item here is Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Trio of 1892, of which the Fidelio Trio give a performance of terrific impetus and ...

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 ...

Camille Saint-Saëns's affinity with Mendelssohn is perhaps nowhere more clear than in his chamber music. They both poured a surfeit of invention into their works for piano and strings, shaping their ...

Recordings of Ravel's Piano Trio in F, completed at the start of the first World War, are a dime a dozen. Recordings of Saint-Saens's Trio in E minor of 22 years earlier are rather more scarce.

We've got Pascal Roge in concert. We'll hear him solo in the Second Piano Concerto by Camille Saint-Saens (kah-meel sa(n)-SAH(N)Z). He's accompanied by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra led by Fabio ...

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 ...

“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 ...

An outbreak of musical patriotism over at the Times, on the day the winners of this year's Gramophone awards are announced. In a poll to decide the greatest classical music recording of the last 30 ...

Throughout the second half of the 19th-century, musical life in France was dominated by grand opera. Like his contemporaries, Saint-Saëns turned his hand to opera, but he also had an enduring interest ...

This fascinating series continues with the interpretation of Camille Saint-Saens, interspersed with transcriptions by the elder composer’s friend and disciple, Isidore Philipp. These stunning piano ...