Camille Saint-Saens

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All I'm familiar with is Danse Macabre, which I find to be incredible despite my usual ambivalence towards "classical" music. My quick search on the ah, INNER-NETS netted a surprisingly small amount of information about this and his other works. Any recommendations?

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Monday, 7 November 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I like his 3rd Symphony.

Allmusic.com entry

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

the carnival of the animals ? it's lots of fun.

― m bott, Monday, 7 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

i'm partial to his 2nd, 4th, and 5th piano concertos - they're all fun listens.

and yeah, the organ symphony is pretty great. wasn't it used in Babe?

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

aww, "carnival of the animals" is the first record i can ever remember listening to. malcolm arnold composed some more animals as a sort of addendum/tribute which is kinda fun as well.
does anyone have a definitive way of pronouncing his name? i've heard all sorts of different ways - i say it like this : sahn-song (the g being sort of half pronounced)

― zappi (joni), Monday, 7 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

if you only speak english you can just say saint (as in "saint etienne") sense (as in "common sense"). if you want to work hard pronouncing it the right way it'd be more like "sane" without the "e" and "sans" as in s+ "answer" without the "-wer". dunno if i'm really clear.

― Etienne Menu (Etienne), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

i dig all the stuff mentioned already-- 3rd symphony, all the concertos, carnival. and the danse macabre, i lost my copy of that, forgot about it, and now i desire to hear it again.

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

also search the Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah.

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Bits of Carnival of the Animals (the Fossils?) are almost identical to Danse Macabre.

Saint-Saens rhymes with Man Ponce, more or less. At least, you can get away with that pronunciation if you're not a french speaker.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

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