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 ...

In this episode, Grammy-nominated Producer, Director of Music and Organist at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston, and Artistic Director of Grace Song, Inc. Keith Weber teaches Dacia about ...

After he finished composing his Organ Symphony for an English orchestra, Saint-Saens admitted he'd never be able to write another work like it. We'll enjoy it during our music this evening beginning ...

Camille Saint-Saëns wrote his Fifth Piano Concerto in Luxor to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his debut. It's been known as the "Egyptian" ever since. We'll enjoy it tonight.

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 ...

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 ...

Olivier Messiaen’s epic, ten-movement Turangalîla-Symphonie has always prokoved Marmite-like reactions in audiences. It was created in the dark post-war years, eventually entering the orchestral ...

Other Mahler symphonies have been downsized on CD: there are superb transcriptions of Nos 7 and 9 from Peter Stangel’s Taschenphilharmonie and the Camerata RCO respectively. Michelle Casteletti’s ...

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We'll hear music from the first movie soundtrack ever written. Camille Saint-Saens (kah-mee(yeh) sa(n)-SAH(N)Z) wrote it for a 1908 film called "The Assassination of the Duke of Guise" (GEEZ). The ...