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Tzigane (Ravel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tzigane is a rhapsody type of composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel. In this sense Tzigane is comparable to Schubert's "arpeggione" sonata: that piece was also written in order to promote a new uncommon instrument, and when the composition proved more popular than the instrument a few years later, execution shifted to a more common instrument (cello in Schubert's case). Tzigane is often performed as an arrangement (by Ravel himself) for solo violin and orchestra. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tzigane_(Ravel)   (407 words)

Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie-musicale, L'heure espagnole (The Spanish Clock) and the second, with a libretto by Colette, the imaginative L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and animals assume personalities of their own. Ravel wrote two piano concertos, the first, completed in 1930, for the left hand only, commissioned by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the war, and the second, completed in 1931, for two hands. Ravel's chamber music includes the evocative nostalgia of the Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, a violin sonata with a jazz-style blues movement, a piano trio and a string quartet. www.naxos.com /composer/ravel.htm   (512 words)

RAVEL ~ NOTES Page ~ aMUSIClassical Directory Composed for piano in 1914, Ravel arranged this suite of six studies in to an orchestral suite of four mmts in 1920. Ravel was to be the soloist but due to illness the work was premiered by pianist Margaret Long to whom he dedicated the work. Ravel composed his PC for the Left Hand, in 1931, for Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein who lost his right arm in World War I. He premiered the work in Vienna in November of 1931. www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/ravel.html   (1056 words)

Maurice Ravel biography - 8notes.com Ravel was born in Ciboure, France (near Biarritz, part of the French Basque region, bordering on Spain). Ravel commented that it was André Gédalge, his professor of counterpoint, was very important in the development of his skill as a composer. Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Concerto For Violin And Orchestra - Piano Reduction Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). www.8notes.com /biographies/ravel.asp   (1488 words)

Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel was born in 1875 in the town of Cibourne, in the Basque region of France. Ravel is generally referred to as an Impressionist, a word which, in the musical world, tends to bring to mind his compatriot, Debussy. Today Ravel is known for writing music in all genres, from solo piano to full orchestra, and from single voice to choral and operatic works. www.eroica.com /phoenix/jdt147-mr.html   (810 words)

- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 Generally considered the greatest French composer since Debussy, Ravel combined skill in orchestration with meticulous technical command of harmonic resources. Ravel's last ballet score was the famous "Bolèro", a work he described as an orchestrated crescendo. The Sonatina is in Ravel's neo-classical style and Le tombeau de Couperin is in the form of a Baroque dance suite. www.karadar.com /Dictionary/ravel.html   (524 words)

Ravel, Maurice - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) RAVEL, MAURICE [Ravel, Maurice], 1875-1937, French composer, b. Ravel excelled at piano composition and orchestration, often scoring his own piano pieces and works by other composers. Other works are the song cycle Shéhérazade (1903), two operas, the chamber piece Tzigane, and ballets such as Daphnis et Chloé (1912), Ma Mère l'Oye (1912), and La Valse (1920). www.encyclopedia.com /html/r/ravel-m1a.asp   (324 words)

Tzigane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) In the early 1920s, Ravel showed a particular interest in writing for the violin, slowly developing the Sonate pour violon et piano for Hélène Jourdan-Morhange. The first performance was set for a concert in London on 26.iv.1924 at the Aeolian Hall; Ravel however did not finish writing the piece until shortly before the performance, and d'Aranyi had only a couple of days to prepare it. Either the work is a parody of the Liszt-Hubay-Brahms-Joachim school of Hungarian violin music and falls into the class of La Valse, or it is an attempt to get away from the limited sphere of his previous compositions to infuse into his work a little of the warm blood it needs." (The Times (London), 28.iv.1924). website.lineone.net /~jdspiers/tzigane.htm   (418 words)

Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music Either the fire is lacking, such as in the opening of Chausson's Poème (where he is so restrained that he seems to sputter off the string in pianissimo passages), or it runs uncharacteristically hot and full, as in the Andante from the Fauré Sonata. There are moments on this disc when he "gets it", such as Tzigane or the Allegro Vivo from the Debussy Sonata, both of which he plays with the appropriate brio. Conductor Georges Sébastien seems to have matters under control during Tzigane, allowing Ravel's stunning orchestral eccentricities to be heard clearly and creating an excellent blend between the soloist and the group. www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=4277   (283 words)

MS1012 - RAVEL & BRIDGE SONATAS - Libove & Lugovoy They fill their thrilling, extroverted Tzigane with huge amounts of energy harnessed in a solid rhythmic framework, which makes for an extraordinarily exciting performance. A quarter of a century later he composed the exquisite Berceuse, followed two years later by a brilliantly contrasting Tzigane with its gypsy-like melodies and astonishing virtuosic passages (performed on the CD with elan and polish). Ravel’s last work for violin and piano is the sonata dating from 1927. www.msrcd.com /libov/libov.HTM   (287 words)

ENESCU, RAVEL, DEBUSSY Pieces for violin and piano AVIE AV2059 [JW] [KS]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2005 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) It is a Joycean masterpiece of colour and incident, a single day in a child’s life recollected and compressed, ranging from gypsy fiddlers, beggars in the street, a shimmering water pool, cuckoo clock and crepuscular fall of night with its ominous storm. The Ravel component of the disc includes the early 1897 sonata, a delightful example of Fauré’s influence and full of compact, elastic lyricism. Ravel attempted to use the instrument in the orchestrated version of the Tzigane, but he was unable to make it heard over the orchestra. www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/May05/Enescu_AV2059.htm   (1963 words)

ECM New Series 1824   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The half-Swiss, half-Basque, French-educated Ravel (1875-1937) and the Romanian Enescu (1881-1955) were classmates at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1890s, studying composition with Fauré. Here, Ravel’s “Sonate Posthume” and “Tzigane”, with its gypsy flourishes, frame Enescu’s “Impressions d’enfance” and Third Sonata and make a strong case for urgent reinvestigation of this composer. Ravel needs no special pleading, but Enescu is too often overlooked. www.ecmrecords.com /Catalogue/New_Series/1800/1824.php   (117 words)

CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Maurice Ravel Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice (b Ciboure, 1875; d Paris, 1937). In 1911 his comic 1-act opera L'Heure espagnole had not been a success, but was later welcomed for the brilliant piece it is. After service in the 1914-18 war, Ravel captured the savage flavour of the end of an era in his La Valse. Ravel is conveniently classified with Debussy, but their dissimilarities are more striking and significant. www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/ravel.html   (839 words)

PROGRAM NOTES SANTA MONICA SYMPHONY OCTOBER 2004 CONCERT Ravel’s ‘Tzigane’ was inspired by the fiery violin music of Hungarian Gypsies and was composed as a showcase of technical skill that only the greatest violinists can play. Tzigane is French for ‘Gypsy’; and also the name of the fiery violin music associated with the Hungarian Gypsies. Tzigane opens with a spectacular solo cadenza that requires the violinist play with the fire of a Gypsy and the virtuosity of a Paganini. www.dlynnwaldron.com /october04program.html   (2997 words)

Maurice Ravel biography Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie-musicale, "L'heure espagnole" and the second, with a libretto by Colette, the imaginative "L'enfant et les sortilèges", in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and animals assume personalities of their own. Songs by Ravel include the remarkable "Shéhérazade", settings of a text by Tristan Klingsor for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and the "Don Quichotte à Dulcinée" songs, originally written for a film of Don Quixote in which the famous Russian bass Chaliapin was to star. His music for the piano includes compositions in his own nostalgic archaic style, such as the "Pavane" and the "Menuet antique", as well as the more complex textures of pieces such as "Jeux d'eau", "Miroirs" and "Gaspard de la nuit", with its sinister connotations. www.kunstderfuge.com /bios/ravel.html   (536 words)

Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) Classical Compositions and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) classical music sheets.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) He wrote in an attractive musical idiom that was entirely his own, in spite of contemporary comparisons with Debussy, a composer his senior by some twenty years. Ravel wrote his ballet Daphnis et Chloé in response to a commission from the Russian impresario Diaghilev. The Sonatine is in Ravel's neo-classical style and Le tombeau de Couperin is in the form of a Baroque dance suite. www.naxos.com /composerinfo/849.htm   (822 words)

Barnes & Noble.com - Music: East Meets West, Daniel Hope, CD Ravel's virtuosic Tzigane peers imaginatively toward Gypsy music, and Hope is accompanied here, as Ravel intended, by a piano fitted with a luthéal attachment, which creates shimmering sounds akin to those of a Hungarian cimbalom. But violinist Daniel Hope presents a program that is much more than a superficial exercise in multiculturalism, and his selections reveal the exotic impulses that touched many composers in the twentieth century. While Ravi Shankar's "Raga Piloo" and "Swara-Kakali" overtly reach westward, particularly in the employment of a violin with the Indian sitar, tabla, and tanpura, Ravel's "Tzigane," de Falla's "Suite populaire espagnol," and Bartók's "Romanian Folk Dances" are more dispersed in their regional influences and certainly suggest no connections with Asia. music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=D36Kg3DAGn&EAN=825646132928&ITM=10   (526 words)

Amazon.com: Lalo / Chausson / Ravel: SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE / POEME / Tzigane: Music: Kent Nagano,London Symphony ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The Chausson projects a fine blend of impressionistic languor and passionate abandon; the Ravel is a brilliant romp with idiomatic gypsy flair. His performance of Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole is among the most passionate, distinguished versions I have yet heard of this work, replete with exquisite technical pyrotechnics from his violin bow and a warm, lush tone. The same holds true for his playing of Chausson's Poeme, while his performance of Ravel's Tzigane is just as fine. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000206AN?v=glance   (1037 words)

Maurice Ravel - Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) [in Dutch] Maurice Ravel studeerde compositie in Parijs o.a. Ravel ontwikkelde zich als een classicistisch componist, die de traditionele vormen met souverein meesterschap wist te hanteren als kader voor zijn vernieuwingen. Opmerkelijk is ook het veelvuldig voorkomen van dansvormen in zijn werk. www.classical-composers.org /comp/ravel   (1662 words)

Stravinsky, Ravel / Jennifer Frautschi, Marta Aznavoorian | ArkivMusic Stravinsky and Ravel are two twentieth century composers whose work is often complex while remaining accessible. Included here are the Duo Concertante and Divertimento for Violin and Piano of Stravinsky, and by Ravel the Sonata for Violin and Piano, and "Tzigane" (Rapsodie de Concert for Violin and Piano). Ravel, as well, in his furious lines and Debussy-like impressionism finds a perfect pairing in these two instruments. www.archivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=48911   (218 words)

WarnerClassics : Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) 04 Maurice Ravel - Ma mère l oye 05 Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in D minor 06 Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G www.warnerclassics.com /release.php?release=2257&work=24633   (25 words)

Kia-Hui Tan concert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The concert closes with Ravel's Tzigane, composed in 1924 for Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Aranyi (Joachim's grandniece), whose playing of traditional gypsy music Ravel much admired. Originally from Singapore, Tan graduated with valedictory honors from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she is a candidate for the doctor of musical arts degree. He served for many years as accompanist for the UCLA Department of Music and has performed in such varied venues as the Nakamichi Baroque Festival and the Green Umbrella New Music Series. www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.news./Chronicle/01/3.22.01/music.html   (485 words)

French Recital Tasmin Little[KS]: Classical CD Reviews- Dec 2002 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The Tzigane is the offspring of Ravel’s intensive study of violin technique via Paganini and of Hungarian Gypsy melodies as performed for him by violinist Jelly d’Arányi. Of particular merit is the performance of the Ravel sonata, which captures splendidly the carefree elegance of Paris in the roaring twenties. Little’s execution of Ravel’s jazz-influenced effects is dead on. www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Dec02/French_Little.htm   (690 words)

RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye by Marat Bisengaliev, Francois-Joel Thiollier at ... RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye by Marat Bisengaliev, Francois-Joel Thiollier at Audio Lunchbox 4: RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye - RAVEL: Tzigane - Tzigane RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=24318   (401 words)

Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Maurice Ravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Maurice Ravel (Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 7 mars 1875 - Paris, 28 décembre 1937) est un compositeur français. L'œuvre de Ravel démontre un style audacieux, mis au service de recherches musicales qui ont révolutionné le piano et la musique orchestrale. Wikimedia Commons possède des documents multimédia sur Catégorie:Maurice Ravel. www.encyclopedie.cc /Maurice_Ravel   (195 words)

Concert - Gypsy Fire After hearing her play that riveting score in London in 1922 (with Bartók at the piano), Ravel decided to write his own Hungarian pastiche. Ravel found inspiration in Bartók's musicological research on Hungarian folk music and in the Gypsy style variations that Ms d'Aranyi had performed. Ravel's Tzigane -- Rhapsodie de Concert is a dazzling display piece that encompasses double stops, harmonics, pizzicatos, glissandos, and all the technical challenges of Paganini's twenty four Violin Caprices, plus a few more. www.lawrencebudmen.com /reviews_gypsy_fire.html   (866 words)

Ravel Tzigane I@m not really into `better or worst` but I think if you are working on Tzigane then it is useful to listen to the Francescatti recording since he toured with Ravel playing the piece. I have a few recordings of the Ravel Tzigane played by violinists like 0istrakh Heifetz and others. He’s interpretation of the Tzigane, in my opinion, is superb, full of expression and performed very tastefully. www.violinist.com /discussion/response.cfm?ID=8479   (398 words)

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