Tzigane For Violin And Piano

'Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody - thus reads Ravel's entry on 'Tzigane in the so-called 'Autobiographical Sketch . Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with piano, with orchestra and with luthéal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. 'Tzigane was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly d'Aranyi, to whom Ravel had already promised a virtuoso piece in 1922 following Franz Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies . Work progressed slowly and d'Aranyi only received the music four days before the première - but she still gave a brilliant performance. / Violon Et Piano