Saint-Saëns - Le carnaval des animaux - V. L'éléphant (The Elephant) - Marco Zammuto

Recorded and performed for Aarhus Kammermusik Festival 2021, in Musikkens Hus, Aarhus (DK)
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This is a famous musical suite by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), written while on vacation in Austria in 1886. It is scored for a chamber ensemble of flute/piccolo, clarinet (B flat and C), two pianos, glass harmonica, xylophone, two violins, viola, cello and double bass.
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Each of the fourteen movements depicts a different animal, often with plenty of humour and wit.
The double bass and piano play a pompous, heavy-handed dance for the elephant. The thematic material derives from the scherzo in Mendelssohn's incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the ballet of the sylphs in Berlioz's "The Damnation of Faust".
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