Throughout the second half of the 19th-century, musical life in France was dominated by grand opera. Like his contemporaries, Saint-Saëns turned his hand to opera, but he also had an enduring interest ...

Cast your eye over the listings of these concertos in the classical catalogue and you’ll find half a column of versions of No 2‚ including three by Rubinstein and a celebrated live recording by Emil ...

“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 ...

2 Video: In Rehearsals with the Cast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC National Tour 3 Photos: Meet the Cast of THE OUTSIDERS National Tour Acclaimed pianist Winston Choi returns to the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) ...

Recordings of Ravel's Piano Trio in F, completed at the start of the first World War, are a dime a dozen. Recordings of Saint-Saens's Trio in E minor of 22 years earlier are rather more scarce.

Saint-Saëns’s piano concertos have been well served on disc in recent years, not least by Bertrand Chamayou’s double Gramophone Award last year for Best Concerto and Recording of the Year, and by ...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns opens with an extended piano solo. Usually, the orchestra plays long before the piano enters. Perhaps his most popular concerto, the ...

We've got Pascal Roge in concert. We'll hear him solo in the Second Piano Concerto by Camille Saint-Saens (kah-meel sa(n)-SAH(N)Z). He's accompanied by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra led by Fabio ...

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Hiddensee is a car-free German island in the Baltic Sea. It's mentioned as one possible inspiration for the pieces on this beguiling disc; this music exists in its own prelapsarian world. There are ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Acclaimed pianist Winston Choi returns to the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) for two ...