“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 ...

History has not been kind to French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, an oversight the Bard Music Festival hopes to amend with a two-weekend focus on “Saint-Saëns and His World.” As a youth, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Saint-Saëns’s chamber music fares better in the concert hall than the recording studio, perhaps because musicians tend to listen less to academic name-calling than to the music itself. The three late ...

SATURDAY 1/27-SUNDAY 1/28. Robinson Center. 7:30 p.m. Sat.; 3 p.m. Sun. $19-$92. Everything old is new again (and again), as must have been evident to the crowds in Washington, D.C., in 1970 when ...

The first concert of the year at The San Diego Symphony was a miniature French festival. Overseeing the proceedings was conductor Ludovic Morlot. Previously he was the music director of The Seattle ...

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 ...

Saint-Saens had great friends in the musical world — and great enemies. He and Lizst were always close, but he and Debussy... well, they never could see eye to eye. But the music remains as a ...