Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre

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These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

Danse Macabre was written as a symphonic poem for orchestra by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874, and he later arranged it for violin and piano in 1877. It is one of the composer's most famous and distinctive works, having found its way into popular culture in myriad examples, while still proving a favourite choice among concert audiences.

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Two click-beats at the beginning indicate the pulse before violin enters

Bars 25-32: click-beats every other bar help keep pulse through these bars where piano is silent

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This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.