Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre Op.40 (1980)
Camille Saint-Saëns / Charles Dutoit / Philharmonia Orchestra
from:
"Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre · Phaéton · Le Rouet D'Omphale · La Jeunesse D'Hercule · Marche Héroique" (LP)
Symphonic Poem (Tone Poem) | Classical | Romantic
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Personnel:
Charles Dutoit: Conductor
Barry Griffiths: Concertmaster
Orchestra: The Philharmonia Orchestra
Produced by Andrew Cornall
Recorded:
@ The Kingsway Hall
in London, England UK
on June 14, 1980
Album Released:
November, 1981
Decca Records
Composed:
in 1874
Premiered:
on January 24, 1875
in Paris, France
“'Danse Macabre' is based 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 (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.”
(The xylophone represents the rattling bones of skeletons.)
- Wikipedia