Saint Saens’ Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28. A live recording conducted by Zubin Mehta, featuring Shlomo Mintz on violin, at Mann Auditorium in 1988. Deutsche Grammophon. This recording of ...

Saint-Saëns is known for Carnival of the Animals and the Organ Symphony - but there's much more to his music than just those two works. Best known for The Carnival of the Animals and his Symphony No.3 ...

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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 ...

Now that the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has christened its new season, it’s off to Paris. Well, not exactly. The orchestra isn’t headed there, but it’s doing its best to evoke the City of Lights at ...

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, ...

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Rob Cowan presents archive music, including Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Saint-Saens's Introduction and Rondo capriccioso and Aaron Copland's Piano Concerto, with Earl Wild. Show more Rob Cowan mines the ...

“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 ...

Live at the BBC Proms: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra with violinist Lisa Batiashvili in music by Rachmaninov, Chausson, Saint-Saëns and Florence Price. Presented by Ian ...