Jessica Duchen - Hungarian Dances

Béla Bartók's
Romanian Folk Dance No.1
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Released 29October 2008





Listen to Ravel's Tzigane

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This is an extract from the CD ‘In the Shade of Forests – the Bohemian world of Debussy, Ravel and Enescu’ (Avie Records, AV2059, presented here by kind permission of the company and the artists).

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Ravel wrote Tzigane after meeting the Hungarian violin virtuoso Jelly d’Arányi in London in 1922 and hearing her play first Bartók’s Rhapsody No.1, then – after dinner – a bonanza of the Gypsy violin music she remembered from her childhood in Budapest. A csárdás in its slow-fast form but written in a musical language that’s all Ravel’s own, the work is dedicated to d’Arányi, who gave its premiere, also in London, in 1924.
In Hungarian Dances, Tzigane is played not only by Mimi Rácz in the 1930s, but also by Rohan, whose performance of it gives Karina more than she bargained for…









photo by Gildas Delaporte.

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‘In the Shade of Forests’ – the Bohemian world of Enescu, Debussy and Ravel

Marc Duplessis’s Suite ‘Dans l’ombre des forêts’ is named after this CD, on the front of which you will find a photograph showing a small Roma girl not unlike Mimi Rácz. Music includes Georges Enescu’s ‘Impressions d’enfance’, Ravel’s Sonate Op.Posth and Tzigane, and violin works by Debussy.

Philippe Graffin (violin), Claire Désert (piano & luthéal)
Avie Records AV2059

Ravel wrote Tzigane after meeting the Hungarian violin virtuoso Jelly d’Arányi in London in 1922 and hearing her play first Bartók’s Rhapsody No.1, then – after dinner – a bonanza of the Gypsy violin music she remembered from her childhood in Budapest. A csárdás in its slow-fast form but written in a musical language that’s all Ravel’s own, the work is dedicated to d’Arányi, who gave its premiere, also in London, in 1924.

In Hungarian Dances, Tzigane is played not only by Mimi Rácz in the 1930s, but also by Rohan, whose performance of it gives Karina more than she bargained for…

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