Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns - Danse Macabre (1874) Violinist: Renaud Capuçon Orchestra: Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Conductor: Daniel Harding Composer: Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns from: âFrench Works for Violin and Orchestraâ LP (2001)
âDanse Macabre, Op. 40, is a Tone Poem for Orchestra, Composed in 1874 by Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns âŠâ
âBased on an old French superstition ⊠According to legend, Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (here represented by a solo violin). His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.â -Wikipedia













