Camille Saint-Saens

For some, it’s not Christmas until they hear “that one piece” of music. We’ve gathered ten more to add to your list!

Walt Disney’s spookiest “Silly Symphony” launched a new approach to classical music in cartoons, but its roots go as far back as the medieval Black Plague.

Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid makes his BSO subscription debut conducting Berlioz’s “Waverley” Overture and two pieces for organ and orchestra, featuring Olivier Latry: Michael Gandolfi’s “Ascending Light” and Camille Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony.

On The Bach Hour, transcriptions by three different composers come together in one piece for piano, and Ton Koopman conducts the composer's Cantata 97.

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelson leads the BSO in Carlos Simon's "Four Black American Dances" and piano concertos by Gershwin and Saint-Saëns with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

One of nature's most entrancing creations is also the inspiration behind beautiful works of music.

On WCRB In Concert with Celebrity Series of Boston, Armenian violinist Diana Adamyan brings a warm lyricism and astonishing technique to works by Mozart, Sibelius, Baghdasaryan, and Saint-Saëns.

On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, melodious chamber pieces for piano and strings by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns take center stage, capped by a world premiere by Lowell Liebermann, all from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?" ~Albert Einstein

In an encore broadcast of the final concert in the 2021-2022 Boston Symphony Orchestra season, BSO Principal Cellist Blaise Déjardin is center-stage in Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons conducts Richard Strauss's panoramic "An Alpine Symphony" and a selection from the composer's "Intermezzo."