Saint-Saëns was once known as the 'French Mendelssohn' because his music appealed to audiences with its clarity of texture and attractive invention, aiming to delight rather than shock.
Performer Biography
Marc Soustrot, the conductor on this album, is considered a specialist in French orchestral music and was honored with the title Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2008.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Saint-Saëns's intellectual curiosity led him to champion contemporary music and promote the rediscovery of works by earlier composers.
Composer Biography
Camille Saint-Saëns, like Mozart and Mendelssohn, showed remarkable musical precocity, starting piano lessons at two and a half years old.
Composer Biography
Saint-Saëns was instrumental in founding the Société Nationale de Musique in 1871, an organization dedicated to propagating French music.
Composer Biography
By the age of ten, Saint-Saëns had memorized all of Beethoven's piano sonatas and showed interest in a wide variety of subjects beyond music.
Recording & Production
This album is Volume 1 of 3 dedicated to recording all five of Camille Saint-Saëns's symphonies.
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