Danse Macabre/Saint-Saens/Leibowitz

Rare 1960 recording. Rene Leibowitz conducts the Orchestra de la Societe des Concerts Symphonique de Paris. Saint-Saens. Enjoy!

Here is a great piano version of this piece played by America's Greatest Pianist, Leonard Pennario:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5akhYBmETI

Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972) was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris in his teens and there began a long, illustrious conducting career. Particularly interested in contemporary music, he studied with Webern and Schoenberg and wrote a detailed analysis of twelve-tone music. A keen ear for instrumental coloration (Ravel was his orchestration teacher) was evident in his kaleidoscopic transcriptions of such works as Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C (for double orchestra!). But he is best known for his often highly personal renditions of many staples of the Classical and Romantic repertoire.

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[dushyantx]

this the best of all the danse macabre's out on, you tube, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it,, to DEATH.. muahahahaha....ahem!

[WampaStomper]

Great chilling piece of music- reminds us that no matter one's station in life the danse macabre unites us all. Amazing rendition :)

[vivegedda]

@m2esectr Very easy to convert if the record is still good. I clean the noises ant digitalise it!!

[vivegedda]

@LeftSock06 And very well don by Leibowitz!

[SoJustCool]

this composition is one of the best qualities ive heard but man it scares me

[rosebooboo1]

This is the closest version I've heard yet to the original piece I listened to when I was a child. It was on a 6 album LP set by Leonard Bernstein that my dad purchased to introduce us to classical music. I'm thrilled to have found it! Love it! Love it!

[m2esectr]

This would be from the Reader's Digest vinyl set "Festival of Light Classical Music". The original vinyls are easily found used, but the recordings taken from them are extremely hard to find in digital form.

[nmyty7]

Thanks this "cheerful"&"lovely"piece.