Camille Saint-Saens took himself seriously as a composer, but his Carnival of the Animals is overflowing with practical jokes. Here are three movements: Pianists, Fossils and the Finale. Pianists ...
“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 ...