Browse: Biographies, Classical Composers, Camille Saint-Saëns

Nectoux's essays on the long relationship between the two composers, especially intriguing in the way it charts the mutual admiration of each other's music — Classical Music More…

an excellent read ... an extraordinary insight into this exceptionally prolific composer ... I read it at the piano, playing the examples, and emerged with a clearer picture of the man than any... — Music and Letters More…

His [Saint-Saens's] intelligence and spontaneity make him unputdownable even on that most resistant of subjects, his own art, which provides the main content of Roger Nichols's selection. All... — BBC Music Magazine More…