Saint-Saëns - Bacchanale (from Samson et Dalila) - Cyprien Katsaris Piano

French composer Camille Saint-Saëns ( 9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921) created this transcription from his Samson and Delilah opera. Franz Liszt encouraged Saint-Saëns to finish the opera and also helped arrange the first production in Weimar in 1877.
In some passages Cyprien Katsaris (b. 1951) performs octaves in the right hand instead of just the written single notes. This is similar to what he did in his recordings of Beethoven's symphonies and other works. This is on one his newest albums which features music of Saint-Saëns.
The sheet music was a color scan and most of the pages were yellow from age. I converted them to grayscale for use in my video.
Sources:
Sheet Music used*: vmirror.imslp.o...
*A few weeks ago a new upload was added to IMSLP for this same sheet music which is not a color scan and is a smaller download.
Samson et Dalila: en.wikipedia.o...)
Camille Saint-Saëns: en.wikipedia.o...
Cyprien Katsaris: www.cyprienkats...

[@griffinhaltom8144]

Played this in middle school orchestra, it's a fun piece for the upper strings.

[@republiccooper]

Nice arrangement. It needs a little more fulness (like Liszt would have done) but it's still so wonderful to have a piano version to perform. Bravo!

[@Qazwdx111]

Love

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[@edge3220]

What a fun little piece. I love it!

[@user-jx9fx9je5l]

Beautiful! Thanks

[@tonimikael]

Bravo !

[@erikhillreviews]

Love this!

[@anonymeese]

Magnifique!

[@spookyeys]

Wow

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[@musiclover148]

Katsaris is an absolutely incredible machine in this piece, but it's not very much fun to listen to, because all the percussive repetition becomes unbearable on the piano, without all the colors of the orchestra.

[@minsekfau3218]

Agreed

[@BeniM]

True but considering what saint saens was working with it came out pretty well. Middle section def weird-sounding asl tho

[@thanhtuluong2474]

Bai nhac nay don gian hon nhac beethoven nhung nghe hap dan hon. Co le no hop voi tuoi tre ngay nay neu duoc pho cap voi hinh thuc nhay mua.

[@alainlaim8147]

Pas terrible en piano

[@g.a.997]

Horrible

[@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven]

Horrible opinion

[@ethanbrowncomposer]

Nah

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Ludwig lol

[@PajaroRojoMon]

@@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven great your opinion

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