SAINT-SAËNS, Danse Bacchanale

[carlolamberti1]

un capolavoro in un altro capolavoro

l'arte di saint-saens spazia tra delicatezze orientali e gentilezze musicali...

carlo

[CorrineInChains]

I played this last year in band, absolutely love it...

[d2dathird]

i enjoyed this version. different indeed!!!

[asianppl168]

we're playing this for a concert in a couple weeks. not even up to full speed. wish us luck -.-

[thepinkcello]

@asianppl168 we also played this song in the high school orchestra.

[YamiraSrima]

@thepinkcello As did we.

[dewatdawn1]

@nesium101 he has no hair because samson is a giant who gets his strength from the length of his hair. so delilah, who had to kill samson, made him drink wine and made him drunk. while he was knocked out, she cut his hair and tied him to a stone column. she fled, and when he woke up, because he had no strength, he died when the building eventually fell down. ^ ^

[123duckyducky]

@dewatdawn1 in another version he prays to God for his hair back, and knocks down the temple.

[dewatdawn1]

5:21 you can hear him slap his leg, lol. xD

[dewatdawn1]

<3 playing this for OYO

[Sista4ever1]

what is the freakin tempo for this. WOW

[KevinAZheng]

@Sista4ever1 i'd give it at least 10 bpm faster than written concert tempo lol

[nesium101]

This makes no sense. Why does Samson have no hair?

[samthman21]

i can't believe this is allowed on youtube...that guy flashes me at least ten times in this video :P

[carolinelinnae]

@samthman21: Just enjoy it. ;P

[166satya]

Played this with the Kolintang. It was beast.

[jamiegrl29]

i have to play this for an audition at my high school D: ahhhhh

[jmbuemio]

love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[danutpopescu1]

bacchanale means orgy. so drugs,dancing,fornicating,drin­king, lusting and f.cking for all in antiquity. sounds familiar?great music.

[ujibo42]

@danutpopescu1 Not exactly. It means a wild, drunk party. It's named after the Roman god Bacchus, who was the god of parties and wine. Hence the wild, drunk party. The sexual connotation started after certain followers of him (women) snuck off once in a while to party in his name. The men who's wives left started these rumors, which caught on immediately due to the immature nature of men.

[peterdsf]

The San Francisco Accordion Chamber Ensemble, 14 players, is playing this piece, and will perform it in concert in April. I play the first violin part, and it sizzles. I also play the oboe cadenza in the beginning, and it is a challenge to play an accordion to sound like an oboe.

[kdkn92]

Song means Drunken Orgy

[angelito1943]

it's version is in the same way who the splendid featured for the MET in our centennial,1983

if you can search for it...

[guacamoleoliee]

In orchestra we called this the sexy dance.

Yup.

[Ingenue001]

Nice

[Ingenue001]

Nice

[lydlovesplaid]

I'm on the English horn in this song in my orchestra! (:

[horses529]

We are doing this song in orchestra. It's really fun to play but also very difficult.

[thesock339]

this song is hard to rush when the horns have to play those violin runs at 5:44

[lingeras]

Does anyone know from which production of Samson & Delilah this was from?

[lingeras]

This is a beautiful production of the Bachanale - sensual and very erotic! The lead male dancer is perfect as a pagan temple dancer. If the Bachanale was banned as being too risque - as someone has commented, this would have been an absolute scandal, much like Nijinsky's "Afternoon of A Faun" scandalised Paris in 1912.

[GilbertoMusic1995]

We're playing this in a youth orchestra...I play the alto sax in this piece, but I play the English Horn part...

[ClassicFrenchHorn]

Go 3rd and 4th horns at 0:18 and at 5:20!!

Oh yeah, and the first and second horns have a nice background lick around 3:30.

I played this in my youth orcherstra and it was amazing!

[Rocklin5]

amazing performance with a wonderful song

[beckleswillson]

Is this commercially available? I'd like the whole production. Please help.

[987654321SHAWN]

masterpiece

[azuchanz]

xD we rush too, the tempo is just too slow T_T so my teacher decided to up the tempo over spring break. xD [we're playing the just strings arrangement by Sandra Dackow...she's a bit crazy may I add but a great arranger, and a great conducter if you keep your mind open] I'm excited though <3 great song.

[RaithEndar]

i played clarinet for this piece, this video is wierd though, less of that creepy black guy, more of the silky women.

[Falstaff85]

hava nagilah?

[FurUrEntertainment1]

Love it playing it on Orchestra ima bass :D

[dragonscarz13]

@FurUrEntertainment1 Cello here.

[FurUrEntertainment1]

Coolness so what do u think of this composition?

[dragonscarz13]

@FurUrEntertainment1 It's very hard not to rush.

[FurUrEntertainment1]

Ya i know lol our teacher turns the metronome on so we dont rush haha we r performing it tomorrow and paradiso and balette from Orpheus and Lake Dance

[dragonscarz13]

Our teacher turns on the metronome and we STILL rush.

[FurUrEntertainment1]

Wow lol i guess that makes my class freaks becuz half of the time we get in trouble for slowing down xD

[dashermage1]

wow we speed up! haha

[1037pm]

cellos always rush :P

[dragonscarz13]

That's because we're built for speed metal.

[MegaEmman]

I remember playing this in band fun times. I had the solo :)

[sushiegirl96]

I looovveee this song :)

[doodlehh]

I don't know too much about dance, but I feel like the male lead dancer dances as if he doesn't like his arms to leave his sides--does that make sense? Is that just part of the style?

[clairemb14]

Yeah I could live without the exposure. But the music was good enough to distract me from it!

[pgnorgan]

What is wrong with male ass cheeks? The human body is a beautiful thing.

[ProjectmixBros]

wow this is fantastic. i have never seen it actually done before. great!

[SinSeared]

ok didnt wanna see male ass cheeks...

[emmaandtoriful]

i'm a first violin and i like this piece :] it's a little hard though.

The choreography is kind of redundant, especially the main dancer, who does the same thing for like 3 full minutes.

[freakforfish]

Nobody gives a shit you fucking whore.

[MissElleWoods]

I'm a flutiee and i'm trying to play that... but, it's a lil bit too hard :D

[ashleywithhearts]

as long as you have your b flat thumb key on and use the harmonics, you should be fine. and breathe often in the slurs toward the beginning. :) i just auditioned with that piece.

[MissElleWoods]

Thanks for helt :) It works!! :**

[lamezzoenfrancais]

What production is this? It looks the same as the SF Opera production from '07...

[lamezzoenfrancais]

Which I know it's not... but it looks like the same scenery, I mean...

[tjodalv44]

Boston Crusaders played this, I'm glad I found it!

[civreal]

First Violin part is the best!!! Yeahye....

[Deadlytrick]

not how i imagined it originally

[themarkusjerome]

Phantom Regiment's choreography for this was much better.

[Rikapie]

I remember playing this in High School for first Violin @_@

[ffaabbuull248]

wow!!1 I'm playing it in high school right now! I have a seating quiz with this song tomorrow. I like to play 2nd violin but my teacher is making everyone audition with the 1st violin part.♥

[NICKSTER117]

HA! I found out what this song is called now. I heard it on the radio and I just completed a two-day quest to find the song.

[Rsmith19756]

I have an oboe solo in this song!!

It's fun to play, as it's a beautiful piece as well

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Some wonderful dancing here

[elishot]

this is fun as hell to play in a full orchestra

[NejiHyuuga777]

Definitely, just played it today :P. I really like how it sounds.

[masael255]

Yeah it is; especially when the audience doesn't expect it. :D

[buffbagwell34]

@elishot Definetley

[civreal]

@elishot

fuck yeah. i was first chair violin on this song.

[ujibo42]

@elishot No lie! I'm playing this next concert!

[lumennaturale86]

I SECOND THAT!!

[designedsayer]

Crazy Pagans,My Fellow Greeks burn down their temples like we did so many centuries ago.

[ug1969]

I knew the music before watching this video... somehow I always thought at 1:56 a nice young lady would arrive... the guy is a bit disappointing for my imagination o__O

and for the very last part I always imagined fouettés, soleils, tours à la 2nde... not that guy shaking his hips :(

[majik2hanz]

EXACTLY! This is only someone's idea of choreagraphy - my imagination is in synch with yours. From 1:56 onward it is all female with all the building sinewy sultry sensations of the music rolled into one kinesthetically appealng beauty - sublime music - interesting note: saint saens bacchanale from samson & delilah was originally banned in theater as too risque.

[Shostie]

Some weird cuts in the music. Cool choreography/dancing, though.

[faerie130]

my middle school band is doing this piece(majority of it) and going A LOT!!!! slower!

[xGUITARxOx]

i love this song! my symphony orchestra and i just played this peace

[mtavilson]

Great Job:-))))

[slappy1234567]

Great!

[californy13]

j'adore cette musique,samson et dalila forever =)

[MistoffeleesIV]

thank you for posting this... this is what inspired my ballet teachers choreography to our opera company back home...