Duo Amie | Saint-Saens Danse Macabre for Cello & Piano - Duo Amie (Julie Reimann, cello, Ellyses Kuan, piano) @DuoAmie | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
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French composer Camille Saint-Saens, born in Paris in 1835, wrote Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) in 1874. It is one of 4 symphonic tone poems he wrote, and one of his most popular works, having been transcribed for many different instrument combinations, including cello and piano. It was inspired by the Danse Macabre folk tale poem by Henri Cazalis, which depicts death dancing in a graveyard while playing a dance tune on the violin, calling up the skeletons in a mad dance and tempting the living to join in, which abruptly ends as the rooster crows at dawn. The dance begins at midnight, and is followed shortly afterwards, by the “Devil’s Interval” (a diminished 5th comprised of A and E flat). And then the mad dance ensues, a kind of gruesomely deranged waltz in ¾ meter, in which Saint-Saens also incorporates echoes of the “Dies irae” from the Latin requiem mass (mass for the dead). Recorded live May 7th, 2022, Newton, MA.
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#dansemacabre #saintsaens #cellopiano #duoamie #cellocover #cellopianoduo #danceofdeath #musician #cello #halloween #celloplayer #cellomusic #musician #encore
French composer Camille Saint-Saens, born in Paris in 1835, wrote Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) in 1874. It is one of 4 symphonic tone poems he wrote, and one of his most popular works, having been transcribed for many different instrument combinations, including cello and piano. It was inspired by the Danse Macabre folk tale poem by Henri Cazalis, which depicts death dancing in a graveyard while playing a dance tune on the violin, calling up the skeletons in a mad dance and tempting the living to join in, which abruptly ends as the rooster crows at dawn. The dance begins at midnight, and is followed shortly afterwards, by the “Devil’s Interval” (a diminished 5th comprised of A and E flat). And then the mad dance ensues, a kind of gruesomely deranged waltz in ¾ meter, in which Saint-Saens also incorporates echoes of the “Dies irae” from the Latin requiem mass (mass for the dead). Recorded live May 7th, 2022, Newton, MA.
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