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 ...

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 ...

We're in Detroit to hear music from the Sphinx Competition, a showcase for top young African American, Latino and Latina players. This year's competition took place in February, and featured a ...

If you select the "images" option of Google, and enter the name Camille Saint-Saens into the search engine, your screen will fill with hundreds of photos, including the one above, of one of the ...

It’s easy to forget the problems there might have been in bringing an opera such as Samson and Delilah to the stage. First, there were the various challenges of matching the composer and librettist.

Deserving more frequent performances than they receive, Saint-Saëns’s two string quartets find persuasive champions in the Fine Arts Quartet. The G major No2, a late work completed in 1918, shows ...

In general, I’m not a happy clappy person. I’ll applaud a great performance, for sure, but I tend to be more polite with my appreciation instead of exuberant. It’s a personal flaw, but I’m working on ...

Lang Lang's new album Lang Lang: Saint-Saens sees the celebrated pianist explore the sometimes whimsical, and often romantic, world of Camille Saint-Saens. By joining forces with his wife, pianist ...