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 ...

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Cellist Pablo Ferrández is soloist in Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Paolo Bortolameolli, at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 4, 2022. (Dania Maxwell / Los ...

series scheduled each season, the "World of . . ." offers invaluable in-depth attention to single composers. Sunday afternoon's KSO concert focused on Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), highlighting the ...

One of Alasdair Neale's great gifts as a conductor is his ability to make a winning case for the most dubious 19th century orchestral music. He did it again Sunday night at the Marin Veterans Memorial ...

There’s a famous anecdote about a visit between the young Camille Saint-Saëns — at the time a rising Parisian composer and gifted performer — and the German composer he respected so much, Richard ...

Saint-Saens gets a bad rap — he's been called "the greatest second-rate composer who ever lived." But his music says differently, and this is just one example. Here's the Violin Sonata No. 1, in ...

In his biography of Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, Brian Rees mentions a music historian’s memorable jab — “In 1921, Saint-Saëns died, full of years and malice” — while noting the French composer’s ...

“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 ...