Saint-Saëns: Music for the Prix de Rome – review

De Liso/Richter/Pruvot/Flemish Radio Choir/Brussels Philharmonic/Niquet(Glossa, 2 CDs)The history of 19th- and early 20th-century French music is bound up with that of the Prix de Rome, a career-defining composition competition organised by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which offered successful candidates a two-year scholarship in Rome. Berlioz, Bizet and Debussy were among its winners. Ravel and Messiaen famously lost, as did Saint-Saëns, whose entries have been unearthed by conductor...

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