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Saturday 21st March 2009 - 16h - auditorium conservatoire, Perpignan
Le Carnaval des Animaux
Recommended from 4 years old upwards!
Drama and music in this zoological fantasy by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns as Varela , story teller and actor, joins with members of the orchestre Perpignan Méditérannée including violin, viola, cello, clarinet, flute and piano, conducted by Daniel Tosi.
Humour, poetry, irony and parody......lions, cocks, elephants, kangaroos, tortoises and even fossils!
"Le Carnaval des Animaux is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes.
Le Carnaval was composed in February 1886 while Saint-Saëns was vacationing in a small Austrian village. It was originally scored for a chamber group of flute/piccolo, clarinet (B flat and C), two pianos, glass armonica, xylophone, two violins, viola, cello and double bass, but is usually performed today with a full orchestra of strings, and with a glockenspiel substituting for the rare glass armonica.
Saint-Saëns, apparently concerned that the piece was too frivolous and likely to harm his reputation as a serious composer, suppressed performances of it and only allowed one movement, Le Cygne, to be published in his lifetime. Only small private performances were given for close friends like Franz Liszt.
Saint-Saëns did, however, include a provision which allowed the suite to be published after his death, and it has since become one of his most popular works. It is a favorite of music teachers and young children, along with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. In fact, it is very common to see any combination of these three works together on modern CD recordings - a handy tool for class work."
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CAMPLER
Centre Art Musique Perpignan Languedoc-Roussillon
Conservatoire National de Région Perpignan Méditerranée
1 rue des Joglars – B.P. 70102 – 66001 Perpignan Cedex
Tél : 04 68 66 35 17
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