Editing Camille Saint-Saëns (section)

===Recordings===
Saint-Saëns was a pioneer in recorded music. In June 1904 [[The Gramophone Company]] of London sent its producer [[Fred Gaisberg]] to Paris to record Saint-Saëns as accompanist to the [[mezzo-soprano]] Meyriane Héglon in arias from ''Ascanio'' and ''Samson et Dalila'', and as soloist in his own piano music, including an arrangement of sections of the Second Piano Concerto (without orchestra).<ref name=marston>
[http://www.marstonrecords.com/legendary-piano/legendary_piano_ward.htm Introduction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406023523/http://www.marstonrecords.com/legendary-piano/legendary_piano_ward.htm |date=6 April 2015 }} and [http://www.marstonrecords.com/legendary-piano/legendary_piano_tracks.htm Track Listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406023518/http://www.marstonrecords.com/legendary-piano/legendary_piano_tracks.htm |date=6 April 2015 }}, "Legendary piano recordings: the complete Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Pugno, and Diémer and other G & T rarities", Ward Marston. Retrieved 24 February 2014
</ref> Saint-Saëns made more recordings for the company in 1919.<ref name=marston />

In the early days of the [[LP record]], Saint-Saëns's works were patchily represented on disc. ''The Record Guide'' (1955) lists one recording apiece of the Third Symphony, Second Piano Concerto and First Cello Concerto, alongside several versions of ''Danse Macabre'', ''The Carnival of the Animals'', the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and other short orchestral works.<ref>Sackville-West and Shawe-Taylor, pp. 642–644</ref> In the latter part of the 20th century and the early 21st, many more of the composer's works were released on LP and later CD and DVD. The 2008 ''[[The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music|Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music]]'' contains ten pages of listings of Saint-Saëns works, including all the concertos, symphonies, symphonic poems, sonatas and quartets. Also listed are an early Mass, collections of organ music, and choral songs.<ref>March, pp. 1122–1131</ref> A recording of twenty-seven of Saint-Saëns's ''mélodies'' was released in 1997.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/songs/oclc/37703970&referer=brief_results "Songs – Saint Saëns"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906195526/http://www.worldcat.org/title/songs/oclc/37703970%26referer%3Dbrief_results |date=6 September 2018 }}, WorldCat. Retrieved 24 February 2015</ref>

With the exception of ''Samson et Dalila'' the operas have been sparsely represented on disc. A recording of ''Henry VIII'' was issued on CD and DVD in 1992.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/henry-viii/oclc/29499717&referer=brief_results "Henry VIII"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906195809/http://www.worldcat.org/title/henry-viii/oclc/29499717%26referer%3Dbrief_results |date=6 September 2018 }}, WorldCat. Retrieved 24 February 2015</ref> ''[[Hélène (opera)|Hélène]]'' was released on CD in 2008.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/helene-poeme-lyrique-in-in-one-act/oclc/699262045&referer=brief_results "Hélène"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906233710/http://www.worldcat.org/title/helene-poeme-lyrique-in-in-one-act/oclc/699262045%26referer%3Dbrief_results |date=6 September 2018 }}, WorldCat. Retrieved 24 February 2015</ref> There are several recordings of ''Samson et Dalilah'', under conductors including [[Colin Davis|Sir Colin Davis]], [[Georges Prêtre]], [[Daniel Barenboim]] and [[Myung-Whun Chung]].<ref>March, p. 1131</ref> In the early 2020s the [[Centre de musique romantique française]]'s Bru Zane label issued new recordings of ''Le Timbre d'argent'' (conducted by [[François-Xavier Roth]], 2020), ''La Princesse jaune'' ([[Leo Hussain]], 2021), and ''Phryné'' ([[Hervé Niquet]], 2022).<ref>Bru Zane CD sets BZ1041, {{oclc|1225196330}}; BZ1045 {{oclc|1296187366}}; and BZ1047 {{oclc| 1301941564}}</ref>