Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre for Brass Quintet

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Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre for Brass QuintetDanse Macabre is a tone poem for orchestra written in 1874. According to legend, Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. The dead come out of their graves to dance till dawn when the cock crows and they return to their graves until the next year. Mr. Holcombe has done a hair raising job of scoring his 7 minute arrangement of the complete work for Brass Quintet of advanced performers. Instrumentation is for 2 Trumpets in C, Horn, Trombone,

are always fascinating and compelling to me and satisfies my love of being in the heart of the music that’s equally bold and vulnerable at once

He was also an artist of immense depth and sensitivity who daily sought to create and encounter moments of beauty in the world

William Whiting with inspiration from the Old and New Testaments

These "Smears" were very popular and "cool" to perform when they were composed over a century ago

and will add depth to your playing and variety to your recital

The rudiments of music are clearly explained

5 GB of space to download

This work is full sounding a will get every audience to their feet at the end of a performance

Below are comments from the composer about his inspiration in writing these Twelve Duos for Trumpets

5-minute work featuring several short cadenzas

In this setting by Geoffrey Bergler for Cornet or Trumpet solo with an ensemble of winds or band

playful Bossa Nova which attempts to capture a bit of the droll humour of its composer