Hagai Shaham gives a master class on Ravel’s Tzigane.
Ravel's exotic showpiece Tzigane was inspired and premiered by Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi, an inheritor of the virtuosic Joachim school of Hungarian violin-playing. The first performance in London on April 26, 1924–which featured the exotic accompaniment of a piano luthéal–was a huge success, despite d'Arányi's having received the completed score on a few days beforehand. Soon afterward, Ravel wrote a second version of the work with orchestral accompaniment.
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