Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886)....

MENGELBERG in New York: Overtures and Short Works (1928-30) - PASC378

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VARIOUS COMPOSERS A selection of shorter works

Studio recordings, 1928-1930
Total duration: 72:54

Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Willem Mengelberg, conductor

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MUNCH The Complete New York Philharmonic Recordings (1947/48) - PASC448

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SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
D’INDY: Symphony on a French Mountain Air
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21
MOZART: Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2
CHABRIER: Bourée Fantasque

Studio and Live recordings, 1947/48
Total duration: 2hr 12:55

Charles Munch, conductor
Robert Casadesus, piano
Édouard Nies-Berger, organ
Walter Hendl and Arthur Schuller, piano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York

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NIKOLAI SOKOLOFF And The Cleveland Orchestra - Complete Recordings (1924-28) - PASC524

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RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 (world première recording)
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
and works by TCHAIKOVSKY, WAGNER, BRAHMS, J. STRAUSS, SIBELIUS and others

Studio recordings, 1924-28
Total duration: 3hr 0:20

The Cleveland Orchestra
conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff

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PABLO CASALS - The Pristine Collection - PABX055

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BACH Suites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007–1012
BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102; Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
BOCCHERINI Cello Sonata No. 4 in A, G4
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto in B minor (1937 and 1960 recordings; the latter in stereo)
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D898
Shorter works by FAURÉ, GODARD, GRANADOS and SAINT-SAËNS

Studio and live recordings, 1926–1960
Total duration: 6:13:29

Pablo Casals, cello
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Alfred Cortot, piano and conductor of the Pablo Casals Orchestra
Blas Net, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Nicolai Mednikov, piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by George Szell
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Prades Festival Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Festival Casals Orchestra of Puerto Rico, conducted by Alexander Schneider

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SALMOND plays Beethoven & Grieg Cello Sonatas (1926-29) - PACM095

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BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
GRIEG Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36
Short works by BRIDGE, BRUCH, GLAZUNOV, GRIEG, POPPER and SAINT-SAËNS

Studio recordings · 1926-29
Total duration: 79:25

Felix Salmond, cello
Simeon Rumschisky, piano

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SLATKIN conducts Delius, Saint Saëns, Ibert (1952-54) - PASC190

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DELIUS Orchestral Music
SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals
IBERT Divertissement

Recorded 1952-1954
Total duration: 66:03

The Concert Arts Orchestra
conducted by Felix Slatkin

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