Saint-Saens at Christmas

Well the day is here, we've been out to lunch with family locally cos it saves Mom cooking for everyone and the cat's have been going crazy over the Turkey since it was put on overnight to cook for tonight.

In with my presents that included a couple of annuals was this compact disc of Cello Music by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens who wrote rather more music than's given credit for.

Most people know his Organ Symphony which I bought in the mid 80's a cd of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim recording from 1976 which I loved on record and of his Samson et Delila.
He wrote a number of pieces for the Cello such as a concerto for cello and this disc adds some marvellous performances recorded ten years ago by the master Cellist Mischa Maisky with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra extremely well recorded to my collection of French music.