Saturday night's Dallas Symphony Orchestra performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony was a dramatic improvement on Friday's. Led by music director Jaap van Zweden, the orchestra played ...

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 ...

Saint-Saëns’ five piano concertos are a pleasure no one need feel guilty about indulging in. My current go-to cycle is a scratchy 1950s French set from Jean-Marie Darre, full of fizz and colour. Does ...

Playing Steve Reich's music demands incredible precision and accuracy. You wonder whether the ideal Reich recording could be realised in a studio, using sequencers, samplers and loops. The intent ...

Lang Lang presents a 2CD album of "musical discoveries", as well as Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 recorded with an all-star cast of the Gewandhausorchester and Andris Nelsons. This album features ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

Anyone who grew up, as I did, on Jean de Brunhoff’s Babar books will find this CD entrancing. For those unfortunates who missed this experience in their early childhood, Babar was a warm-hearted, ...

Donald Macleod delves into the character and music of Camille Saint-Saëns This week’s episode begins with a look at Saint-Saëns the innovator, who introduced new-fangled ideas to an opera-loving ...