![]() ![]() ![]() It was a featured piece involving dueling violins in the 1984 film Unfaithfully Yours.Victor Borge performed Csardas in both a hilarious and technically superb way with violinist Anton Kontra.Grace Jones adapted a portion of the melody as an intro for her version of 'Autumn Leaves' on her 1978 album Fame.The theme is also prominently featured in the 1951 Bollywood movie Awaara.Sylvia Fine used the Allegro vivo section from this composition as the closing theme for her comic composition The Little Fiddle (Symphony for Unstrung Tongue), as performed by her husband, Danny Kaye, first in the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and afterward as a release on Decca Records.The British Film Institute database lists a 1927 short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process by the Samehtini Trio, featuring this work played by a pianist and cellist.This gives the effect of the violin sounding two octaves (24 semitones) higher. This involves the violinist placing their finger down on the note and playing another note, with the finger only just touching the string 5 semitones above. In the Meno, quasi lento section, the violin plays 'artificial,' 'stopped,' or (less accurately) 'false' harmonics. ![]()
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