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Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs, Spanish: Aires gitanos), Op. 20, is a musical composition for violin and orchestra written in 1878 by the Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate.It was premiered the same year in Leipzig, Germany.
Zigeunerweisen is a departure from director Suzuki Seijun's Nikkatsu films in many ways. It was shot entirely on location without access to studio resources; it runs 144 minutes, in contrast to the former's 90-minute maximum; and its intellectual characters and period setting and subject matter invited a more literary audience as opposed to the ...
Pablo de Sarasate in 1905. Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Navarre, in 1844, the son of Don Miguel Sarasate, a local artillery bandmaster.Apparently, after seeing his father struggle with a passage for a long time, he picked up the violin and played it perfectly.
In 1980, Arato produced Zigeunerweisen for director Seijun Suzuki. He was unable to secure exhibitors for the film and famously exhibited it himself in a specially-built, inflatable, mobile tent. The film won four Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was voted the best Japanese film of the 1980s by Japanese critics. [1]
Ungarische Zigeunerweisen (Konzert im ungarischen Stil), Hungarian Gypsy Melodies (Concerto in the Hungarian Style), is a single-movement work for piano and orchestra of about 17 minutes' duration by Sophie Menter (renowned 19th-century pianist and Franz Liszt's favourite female student).
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) Op.20: Orchestre Symphonique de Radio Tele Luxembourg / Leopold Hager: 18.II-1985, Luxembourg: DVD Doremi DHR-7981-3 (p)2010: V: live Saint-Saëns, Camille: Introduction et rondo capriccioso, Op.28: Orchestre Symphonique de Radio Tele Luxembourg / Leopold Hager: 18.II.1985, Luxembourg: DVD Doremi DHR-7981-3 (p)2010 ...
Regarding the genre-defying nature of the music, New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff wrote, "Despite its inclusion of Bach and Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen", Uncommon Ritual is not a classical album. But neither does it belong to bluegrass, traditional Irish music, jazz or any of the other traditions it lightly borrows from.
Kagerō-za (陽炎座, Heat-Haze Theatre) is a 1981 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on a novel by Kyōka Izumi. [1] [2] It forms the middle section of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and followed by Yumeji (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912–1926) setting.