Danse du Sable

Description

Instrumentation: pour quatuor de clarinettes (clarinette en mib, clarinette en sib et 2 clarinettes basses en sib)

If Khatchaturian had written ONLY the Saber Dance, he would have had a very successful career. Composed as a movement of the 1942 ballet Gayane, the Saber Dance took the U.S.A. by storm in 1948 (3 different recordings hit No. 1in Billboard's best-selling albums by classical artists) and has since been embraced by magicians, figure skaters, and an endless list of variety shows, TV shows, and movies. Here, the world-class clarinettist Florent Héau has arranged this frenzied classic for clarinet quartet. For advanced performers. Dur.: 2'30"