Camille Saint-Saens: Carnival of Animals (Le Carnaval des animaux) - The Swan - viola piano

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Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).
Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. After leaving the post twenty years later, he was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas.
As a young man, Saint-Saëns was enthusiastic for the most modern music of the day, particularly that of Schumann, Liszt and Wagner, although his own compositions were generally within a conventional classical tradition. He was a scholar of musical history, and remained committed to the structures worked out by earlier French composers. This brought him into conflict in his later years with composers of the impressionist and expressionist schools of music; although there were neoclassical elements in his music, foreshadowing works by Stravinsky and Les Six, he was often regarded as a reactionary in the decades around the time of his death.
The Carnival of the Animals (French: Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements, including "The Swan". The work, about 25 minutes in duration, was written for private performance by two pianos and chamber ensemble; Saint-Saëns prohibited public performance of the work during his lifetime, feeling that its frivolity would damage his standing as a serious composer. The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death. A public performance in the same year was greeted with enthusiasm, and the work has remained among his most popular. In addition to the original version for chamber ensemble, the suite is frequently performed with a full orchestral complement of strings.
Performed by Anna Konoplyova - viola
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[@Teplinushka]

Анечка, это божественно-прекрасно! Звук такой глубоко-проникновенный, и Лебедь прям как живой! ❤❤❤

[@ViolinSoundscapes]

Спасибо, Мариночка ))

[@XuSha-ce4ux]

Очень красивая версия!🩰
Я учусь играть на скрипке,
скоро выпускаться и выступать с эти произведением, которое я сама просила выучить в музыкальной школе, слушаю, чтобы лучше было на слуху!
Спасибо!🎻

[@ViolinSoundscapes]

Спасибо! Это первый опыт игры на альте

[@heartsandmindsathome]

So beautiful 💛

[@ViolinSoundscapes]

Than k you!!!!

[@user-os1sj3pb8c]

Очень красиво и глубоко. И скрипка звучит как-то по другому красиво. Я всегда наслаждаюсь твоими звуками

[@ViolinSoundscapes]

Светик, спасибо. Это мой новый альт! Из Берлина привезла. Нашла на барахолке поломанный, вылечила, и теперь играю понемногу

[@du_barnstokr]

То ли ты, девочка, такая маленькая, то ли скрипочка у тебя такая большая ) Это альт?

[@ViolinSoundscapes]

Да!!!! Это мой первый альт. Я в фб рассказала уже историю как купила в антикварном магазине поломанный альт с 2 смычками всего за 100 евро, восстановила его, и теперь вот наслаждаюсь звуком ))

[@ViolinSoundscapes]

Полноценные полнометражные концерты на нем я играть, скорее всего, не смогу, реально тяжело физически, нужно быть крепким мужиком, чтоб его просто держать спокойно, хотя это маломерка, всего 38 см, есть альты 46-47 см. Но вот пристраиваюсь, очень нравится звук. Силенок не хватает пока, но думаю со временем будет легче