An organ in a symphony? That’s not something you hear every day. But Camille Saint-Saëns wasn’t one to follow the usual rules ...

A performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' 'Danse Macabre' by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This clip is from the series Performances from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This clip could be used to ...

Read more Saint-Saëns was one of the most remarkable prodigies in the history of music – indeed, he had an altogether remarkable mind: organist, pianist, conductor, caricaturist, dabbler in science, ...

Saint-Säens’ Danse Macabre on electric guitar proves it’s actually a monolithic rock instrumental ...

With many composers you can say they wrote more idiomatically either for voices or instruments. But Saint-Saëns seems to have been equally at home in both media, so that whatever he writes is not ...