Maurice Ravel, Jean-Francois Monnard

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 lutheal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. Tzigane was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly d''Aranyl, to whom Ravel had already promised a virtuoso piece in 1922 following Franz Liszt''s Hungarian Rhapsodies. Work progressed slowly and d''Aranyl only received the music four days before the premiere - but she still gave a brilliant performance.

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