Saint-Saëns’s five piano concertos are well catered for on disc. Every home should have at least one complete set of these life-enhancing works. For what it’s worth, my personal favourites are by ...
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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Conrad Tao had his debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra when he was 18, and the Post-Dispatch’s classical music critic ...
“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 ...
The monster Cavaillé-Coll organ of Paris’s St Sulpice is the star of Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony. Les Siècles specialises in “period” performance, with an 1874 Érard piano in the Fourth Concerto. The ...