Comments on: Leopold Stokowski: Danse Macabre

By: LucaG

LucaG — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Hey man, just wanted to thank you for this resource of yours. This version of the danse macabre is wonderful and I really loved those Mary Lou Williams recordings you put up some time ago. Keep up the good search, your work is really valuable - cheers from Italy

By: Thoth

Thoth — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Danse Macabre is “a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one’s station in life, the dance of death united all”–wiki

Reminds me of the ending of that classic film “The Seventh Seal” by Ingmar Bergman, where the medieval characters, all claimed by death, dance away into the hills.
Remember this was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?? The Hush episode!
According to the ancient superstition, Wiki says its based on a superstition that “Death” appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle.
I would love to see a character in film with such powers!
Wonderful find!
Creepy and touching.

By: Shalom

Shalom — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been trying to track down an early acoustic recording of the Danse Macabre for some time; I have a partial download from who knows where, and I’ve been looking for the rest of it for about six years now.

This isn’t it.

Could you give a listen to the one at the above URL and see if you recognise it? Thanks.

Shalom

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Yes! This is the version!

Thanks so much.