All Saint-Saëns articles
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ReviewConcert review: Grace Park (violin) Joseph Liccardo (piano)
Bruce Hodges attends the all-French recital at New York’s Weill Recital Hall on 13 December 2021
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Jinjoo Cho: Saint-Saëns
Deliciously supple playing from soloist and orchestra in a composer tribute
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Astrig Siranossian: Saint-Saëns
Affection for the music shines through in a tribute for composer’s centenary
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Daniel Müller-Schott: Four Visions of France
German cellist brings an international feel to collection of Gallic works
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Review round-up: BBC Proms 2021
Peter Quantrill attends the cream of the strings crop during this year’s Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall
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Review round-up: Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe
David Kettle samples the best of the Scottish festivals’ strings-based programmes in August 2021, imaginatively refreshed and distilled for post-pandemic times
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Sitkovetsky Trio: Ravel, Saint-Saëns
Perfectly judged, poised ensemble in lovingly sculpted French piano trios
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Steven Isserlis: Music from Proust’s Salons
Isserlis and Shih’s Proustian programme is full of spontaneity and lyrical delight
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Renaud Capuçon, Edgar Moreau: Saint-Saëns
Three Frenchmen play music by their countryman with charm and brilliance
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Ironwood: Romantic Dreams
Period-instrument ensemble plays French repertoire with sensitivity
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Kanneh-Mason Family: Carnival
An enchanting tour de force from a stunningly gifted musical family
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Virgil Boutellis-Taft: Incantation
Intimate and inward-looking playing perfectly suits a memorable recital programme
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Jean-Guihen Queyras: Complices
A fabulously accomplished collection of encores from accomplices
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Jenő Hubay and His Pupil Emil Telmányi
Splendidly remastered reissue of Hungarian master and his virtuoso pupil
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Concert review: Alisa Weilerstein (cello) New York Philharmonic/Jakub Hrůša
Leah Hollingsworth attends the performance at New York’s Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, on 21 November 2019
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Masterclass: Maxim Vengerov on the Caprice D’après L’étude En Forme De Valse
Being a good musician is like being a great cook, according to Maxim Vengerov. In this Masterclass first published in the November 2005 issue of The Strad, he gives his recipe for playing a fiendish Saint-Saëns waltz arrangement by Ysaÿe
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos - no.1 in A minor op.33, no.2 in D minor op.119; Suite for cello and orchestra op.16; Allegro appassionato op.43
The Strad Issue: March 2017 Description: A forgotten cellist's Saint-Saëns finally makes it on to CD Musicians: Christine Walevska (cello) Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra/Eliahu Inbal Composer: Saint-Saëns Catalogue number: DECCA ELOQUENCE 482 2033 Born in Los Angeles in 1948, Christine Walevska ...
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Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor. Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio no.2 in E minor op.92
The Strad Issue: January 2017 Description: French piano trios played with confidence and elegance Musicians: Fidelio Trio Composer: Ravel, Saint-Saëns Catalogue number: RESONUS RES 10173 It’s sometimes tempting to describe Saint-Saëns’s chamber music as offering a mixture of Beethovenian weight and ...
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Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor. Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor op.33 Martin: Ballade
The Strad Issue: July 2016 Description: French (and Swiss) fancies that aren’t allowed room to breathe Musicians: Wen-Sinn Yang (cello) Giessen Philharmonic Orchestra/Michael Hofstetter Composer: Lalo; Saint-Saëns; Martin Catalogue number: OEHMS OC 1838 At its best Saint-Saëns’s music really sparkles, his First Cello Concerto ...
