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Swan, inspiration for Saint-Saëns' piece Le cygne "Le cygne", pronounced [lə siɲ], or "The Swan", is the 13th and penultimate movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. Originally scored for solo cello accompanied by two pianos, it has been arranged and transcribed for many instruments but remains best known as a cello ...
Two pianos and cello: a slowly moving cello melody (which evokes the swan elegantly gliding over the water) is played over rippling sixteenths in one piano and rolled chords in the other. A staple of the cello repertoire, this is one of the best-known movements of the suite, usually in the version for cello with solo piano which was the only ...
It was written as a cello solo with accompaniment of a piano. This is a slight variation on that arrangement. Since this is a video of a White House performance, I assume it is very high caliber. This file adds significantly to the following articles: Le cygne; Camille Saint-Saëns; The Carnival of the Animals
2006 My Heart Is in the East and other pieces for solo cello (DVD, post-production) 2010 Brahms for Fuchs Sake (PAL DVD), Brahms sonatas for cello and piano in E minor and F major. Robert Fuchs Sonata for cello and piano in E flat, (with Bengt Forsberg, piano) 2010 The Swan and other short pieces for cello and piano (DVD, post-production)
His first CD, in 2003, was The Silver Swan for Black Box was a compilation of pieces for multitracked cellos, all of which he recorded himself using pioneering techniques of layering voices without an electronic click. His next CD, Reminding, featured Soviet music for cello and piano, and was released on Quartz in September 2005. [3]
The Gál discography now includes the four symphonies (Kenneth Woods and the Orchestra of the Swan), the complete piano music (Leon McCawley), the complete string trios (Ensemble Epomeo), concertos and concertinos for violin, cello and piano (soloists Annette-Barbara Vogel, Matthew Sharp and Sarah Beth Briggs with conductor Kenneth Woods and ...
The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times.
Arabic Melody for cello and piano, Op. 4 No. 5; from Five Romances (songs) (1882–85) Elegy in D flat major for cello and piano (Une Pensee a F. Liszt), Op. 17 (1888) Two Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 20A (1888) (Melodie; Spanish Serenade) Chant du Ménestrel for cello and piano, Op. 71 (1900) Reinhold Glière. Ballade