Ravel: Mother Goose

In a piece he first wrote for children to play on the piano, Maurice Ravel found magical new sounds for the orchestra.

Saint Saëns Organ Symphony

A child prodigy, Saint-Saëns was not only a gifted composer but an accomplished pianist who could perform all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas from memory by the age of ten.  Composed for the Philharmonic Society of London, his Symphony No. 3, Organ, is dedicated to his friend Franz Liszt.