Saint-Saens Danse Macabre for Cello & Piano - Duo Amie (Julie Reimann, cello, Ellyses Kuan, piano)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2022
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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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Absolutely fantastic performance! I loved it! 🙌🏾🎻💫
Thank you so much!!
Whole lotta sound outta two instruments. I have always loved this piece, and I loved this rendition. Make more.
Really love this piece too (it does make quite sound)! We will keep at it (try to do at least 1 video a month). Thank you for listening!
Beautiful! Astonishing!
Thank you!
Brilliant from just the two of you you where amazing
Thank you!!
Anche cosi è magnifico
Grazie!
Wow!
Thank you Walter!
Fabulous.
Thank you!
How many rehearsals led to this perfection?
It took a fair amount and we also performed it a couple times before this live performance.
Do you know where I could find sheet music for this piece?
You can download the music from IMSLP. It is the arrangement Saint-Saens made for violin and piano. I adapted the violin part for the cello, keeping all the virtuosic elements but taking it down a register to work on the cello.
@@DuoAmie thank you very much!
You're welcome!
@@DuoAmiethis is now my favorite rendition of this piece. Brava!
Thank you so much!!
How did the idea for this performance come about?
We designed a program we called 'Shall We Dance" and we both love this piece so we decided to take Saint-Saens transcription for violin and piano and make it for cello and piano (by taking the violin part down an octave in various places). Thanks for asking!
No tympani? No xylophone? No trumpets? No cymbals? No violins? Impossible!
What would Saint-Saens think?
This version is actually a transcription that Saint-Saens himself made, for violin and piano. What I did was take the violin part and keep all the virtuosic aspects but in areas bring it down an octave so that it would actually work on the cello :).