“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 ...

You can never have enough of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, a piece tailor-made to soothe and delight during stressful times. It gets better and better with repeated listenings. Where to start?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole.” Those words adorned the Walker Art Center’s east wall for several years, part of a piece of conceptual art by Lawrence Weiner. I found ...

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 ...

He showed immense talent from a young age, playing pieces by Mozart and Beethoven from memory at the age of ten. He enjoyed a steady increase in popularity over the course of his career, punctuated by ...