Why would a composer cancel his own music? Camille Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals.

Episode 18 - It’s 1886 and by now 51 years old Camille Saint-Saëns is a serious public figure. A conservative composer of traditional music ... or is he?

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Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Work: Le Carnaval des animaux (ed. Durand)
Performer: Renaud Capucon, Gautier Capucon, Emmanuel Pahud, Beatrice Muthelet, Florent Jodelet, Esther Hoppe, Frank Braley, Paul Meyer, Janne Saksala, Michel Dalberto
Year: 2003
Label: Erato
Catalogue No: 5456032

[ricucci-hillmusic]

Ok.... thirty seconds in and I had to pause to just take it all in... *deep breaths* Saint-Saëns as a furry is cursed, and was not where i expected this to be going but also, I'm a little shocked I didn't expect it going in.

[lilliedoubleyou]

Between 'Carnival of the Animals' and 'Danse Macabre, ' Saint-Saens seems like one of the amusing, most fun composers.

[golden_runes]

most underrated channel on youtube. this channel should have at LEAST a million subscribers at this point

[ladymacbethofmtensk]

Then, in 1995, Saint-Saën's acceptably serious Third Symphony would be used as a main theme in a moving picture about talking animals and a sheep-pig.

I wonder what he would have done if he knew that would come.

[ClassicsExplained]

Thank you so much for all of your kind words and support.

[kittymervine]

Children LOVE THIS. All the other teachers were "Peter and the Wolf" (fine but... eh....kids love animals!). Having pictures of the animals and a "parade", and making costume. No wolf for us in preschool/kindergarten! Animals!

[Rgoid]

11:49 “What would happen if you gave a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?”

(Who wrote this?)

-James Earl Jones, Fantasia 2000

[SeadogDriftwood]

As a piano teacher, I can confirm the statement on scales made at 9:20 : scales are BOTH. They're an absolutely essential pain in the neck.
I like to tell my students that one of the aims for scales is to play them entirely without emotion, which is actually much harder than you'd think. If you can play with emotion AS WELL AS without emotion, you have that much more control as a performing artist.

[emilyglass]

Next to the swan movement, the aquarium is my favorite movement from this piece. It just has such a nice tone that I can close my eyes and relax to.
Edit: Who'd have thought that Alan Menken would be inspired by Aquarium to write some of the music for Beauty and the Beast, one of my favorite Disney movies?

[LuckyLiegeLady]

2:07 This poor swan can’t catch a break. It got eaten in the last video, and now it’s been frankensteined with a cello!

[rayati]

LOVE this piece, you can't imagine my excitement when I discovered you were going to cover it!!!

[RodnaJankovic]

Fantastic series. Should be part of every School Curriculum. So informative, interesting, amusing and entertaining.

[TristanMA]

Famous Children's Favorite for Earth Day with a Finale featuring Flamingos in Fantasia 2000. Other works by Saint-Saens are his Danse Macabre and Samson et Dalila.

[TristanMA]

You mentioned Rossini in this presentation! He did not just do Barber of Seville. He also did William Tell (featuring a famous overture with a storm and a galop), Thieving Magpie (also with a famous OVerture), La Cenerentola, Semiramide, etc.

[Eva-zgtb]

I’m really glad channels like yours exist! It really goes against the “boring classical music” stereotypes.

[christopherwilson]

for me Saint-Saens has been France's answer to Russia's Prokofiev - especially in "Peter and the Wolf" - both works has instruments interpretations on animals - both are brillante introductions for children to the orchestra.

[tangentartists]

While I loved this! And thanks so much for mentioning Alan Menkin's tribute!

[sydposting]

The Ben Stiller cameo at 10:21! 😂 Amazing. This might be your best yet! The writing and tone are just right for the subject materials, and the little cartoon Saint-Saëns was just adorable.

[kathrynoneill]

This was very informative and the HILARIOUS beginning is a bonus! Still chuckling. I'm subscribing.

[dariomosbo]

This is such a great channel! The way of talking about classical music, giving it its necessary historical context and diving into the musical analysis with such a great animation and humour. I'm so excited about the next video. Personally, I would like to see something along the line of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto or Bizet's Carmen. Or maybe something a little more unknown like Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo or Albeniz's Suite Española. Again, thank you very much for creating such a fun way to teach classical music! 😁😁