The Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra presented a 'rare' musical event, performing Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3, the famous 'organ symphony'.

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 ...

‘Fundamentally, it is neither Bach, nor Beethoven, nor Wagner that I love, but Art. I am an eclectic,’ Saint-Saëns wrote in the preface to Harmonie et mélodie, a collection of his criticism published ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...