On Saturday night, Alisa Weilerstein played the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic. I have a special memory of this concerto, played by someone else, also with the ...
Lions, swans, donkeys and… pianists? Here are all 14 movements of The Carnival of the Animals, and what they’re about. The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns took himself quite seriously. So ...