Poster Camille Saint-Saens at the piano
Composer Camille Saint-Saens at the piano, 1916
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Camille Saint-Saens

Violinist Joshua Bell says that composer Camille Saint-Saens is terribly underrated, and feels that his Violin Concerto No. 3 is beautiful, logical, virtuosic, and a perfect fit for the violin. Hear Joshua Bell play Saint-Saens's Violin Concerto No. 3 at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, on Thursday's Performance Today.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat: Movement 3
Mark Bennett, trumpet; English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
Really Mad about the Classics
DG 445770

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 No. 5, "Largo"
Pavel Haas Quartet
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

Mark Dancigers: Everness
yMusic
Classical KING FM's Second Inversion, KING FM studios, Seattle, WA

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute No. 2 in D Major, K. 314
Marie Tachouet, flute; Artosphere Festival Orchestra; Corrado Rovaris, conductor
The Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Hour 2

Peter Tchaikovsky: Danse Russe from Swan Lake op. 20 Act III
Joshua Bell, violin; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Sony 94832

Nikita Koshkin: Suite for Four Guitars
Georgia Guitar Quartet
Pensacola Christian College, The Crowne Centre, Pensacola, FL

Camille Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 61
Joshua Bell, violin; Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra; Joshua Weilerstein, conductor
2016 Verbier Festival, Combins, Verbier, Switzerland

Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor
Maria Joao Pires, piano
Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw, Poland

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