If there is one work in which humor is rampant in music, it is in Saint Saens' "Carnival of the Animals". He wrote it in 1866 for the students of the Niedermeyer school in Paris. Globe has released a new recording of the Ensemble Concentus Bestiales; an ensemble consisting of top musicians working in the Netherlands. Peter Lockwood and Julian Reynolds play the piano parts, Reynolds (affiliated with
… the Dutch Opera between 1986 and 1994) conducts. Also included are some works for two pianos: "Polonaise op.77", "Scherzo op. 87" and "Variations on a theme by Beethoven op.35" ._more
