Danse macabre op.40 (Tr. E. Lemare)

Halloween 2020 in Portsmouth, Ohio! Our "PipeScreams" concert at Second Presbyterian Church has become an annual tradition. While in-person concerts are unfortunately still not possible due to our global situation, here is a virtual rendition of one of the show-pieces.

Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, based on an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked the piece into a tone poem, replacing the vocal line with a solo violin part.

Edwin Henry Lemare (1865 – 1934) was an English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States. An incredibly accomplished performer, he leaves a legacy of phenomenal orchestral transcriptions: He sincerely believed in letting concert audiences in mid-sized American towns hear important orchestral works from Europe that would otherwise go unknown in locales with no resident symphony orchestra

System Details:
MIDI Console by Content https://www.contentorgans.com/en/
Hauptwerk V https://www.hauptwerk.com/
Mac Mini, 64GB Ram https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/
Motu Ultralite-mk3 Audio Interface https://motu.com/products/motuaudio/ultralite-mk3

Sampleset: Hereford Cathedral, Lavender Audio
https://www.lavenderaudio.co.uk/organs/hereford/

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