Over a remarkably long and illustrious career, Camille Saint-Saëns thrilled audiences around the world as a pianist and organist, shaped the course of musical life in France, and enriched a multitude of genres with some 600 works, all bearing witness to the mastery of his craft. Setting his best-known compositions in their dazzlingly diverse context, this edition invites exploration and discovery. It spans more than a century of recording history, encompassing a host of great instrumentalists, singers, conductors and orchestras, many of them from France. Setting the pace, in performances from as early as 1904, is the composer himself.

Artists

Saint-Saëns Edition 2021, Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (chamber ensemble), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Ulf Hoelscher (violin), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Paul Tortelier (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Olivier Charlier (violin), Jean Hubeau (piano), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Roland Pidoux (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Maria de la Pau (piano), Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano), Dirk Meijer (bassoon), Jan van Liere (piano), Ian Bousfield (trombone), Alison Procter (piano), Edgar Moreau (cello), Robert Fontaine (clarinet), Thomas Prévost (flute), Jacques Vandeville (oboe), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Quatuor Viotti, Quatuor Kandinsky, Groupe instrumental de Paris, Michel Béroff (piano), Le Trio à cordes français (piano), Marielle Nordmann (harp), François-René Duchâble (piano), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Akano Sakai (piano), Jean-François Heisser (piano), Georges Pludermacher (piano), Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano), Olivier Chauzu (piano), Daniel Roth (organ), Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Ernest Blanc, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Martinon, Pierre Dervaux, Michel Plasson, Louis Frémaux, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, André Previn, Lionel Bringuier, Daniel Harding, Carlo Maria Giulini, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Georges Prêtre