Sarasate - Carmen Fantasy

The Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate was one of the premiere virtuosos of his day, accepted for his abstention of accent and breeding of performance. Abounding average and backward 19th aeon composers committed works to him, such as Camille Saint-SaГ«ns' Violin Concerto No. 3 and his Introduction and Rondo capriccioso. He was aswell a accomplished artisan and wrote abounding pieces for violin and orchestra, mainly able pieces that activated capacity from accepted operas of the time, such as the Carmen Fantasy. There is something about Spain and its music that has admiring and aggressive abounding French composers. As Spain and France are next to anniversary other, conceivably it is the abutting adjacency and assured assortment of cultures and languages that accounts for this. Whatever the reasons, Bizet is in a continued band of French composers that wrote music on Spanish themes. Georges Bizet's opera Carmen opened in Paris in 1874 and was a failure. Critics panned it and the audience, while initially receptive, grew colder as the opera progressed. During its antecedent run, the artisan Bizet died al of a sudden of a affection advance at age 36. The opera played a absolute of 48 performances in its aboriginal production, afresh was not heard afresh in Paris until 1883. The abortion of the opera in its antecedent run has been attributed to the accuracy of it and the apart behavior of some of the characters in it. Tchaikovsky saw the opera in a achievement during its antecedent run and anticipation it a plan of genius. The afterward year there was a assembly in Vienna and it met with added success. Brahms and Wagner saw it in Vienna and they both agreed with Tchaikovsky's assessment. After the Vienna production, the opera boring began to accretion drive and performances until it became a all-embracing success at the about-face of the aeon and charcoal a basic of the opera repertoire.JOYO JF-30 Sarasate wrote his Carmen Fantasy in 1883, just as the opera was alpha to accretion in popularity. It is in 5 sections, four dances and an interlude: Aragonaise - A Spanish ball from the Aragon region, in amateur time. Habanera- Originally a ball from Cuba, it was brought to affliction by sailors. Interlude Seguidilla - An old Castillian folk song and ball anatomy in amateur time. Gypsy Dance The Carmen Fantasy is a actual technically demanding. It asks abundant of the violinist in the way of authentic technique, but aswell it is a analysis of the soloists musicianship. It aswell exists in a adaptation for piano and violin and is generally played in violin competitions.