Okay for the next piece in our ongoing Tuesday Rhapsodies segment, Brahms’ Rhapsodies, Op. 79. I really should get into Brahms more. I mean I know just how experimental he was, how much of a personality he was… he had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay this week it’s back to basics with Franz Liszt and his Hungarian Rhapsody # 10
For this week’s rhapsody we have Franz Liszt’s second Hungarian Rhapsody. Yes, yes, I know, we did Liszt last week but this time we have something special, Harpo Marx! I frequently have extremely mixed feelings about the musical numbers in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today something a little different. The mad scene from Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor. Okay, technically not a rhapsody, but it’s rhapsodic in form, so it counts.
Since it is the season, today’s Rhapsody is Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (Midsommarvaka, Midsummer Vigil) by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén. More commonly called the Swedish Rhapsody (even though he wrote three of them.) It’s a nice little whimsical one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is the Norfolk Rhapsody By Ralph Vaughan Williams
For this week’s selection we are doing the first of George Enescu‘s Romanian Rhapsodies performed by the Cernauti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Liviu Buiuc.
Today we’re back to Brahms with his Alto Rhapsody, Opus 53. This version is by London Philharmonic Orchestra with Clemens Krauss conducting and Kathleen Ferrier singing. http://youtu.be/vy_HCxKZQys http://youtu.be/cjbG6HDU2GU
Today we’re going back to Hugo Alfven and the second of his three Rhapsodies, the Uppsalarapsodi. (That’s Uppsala Rhapsody for those not up on their Svenska). I lived in Uppsala for a year in junior high, (saw the funeral scene[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay Folks today it’s another go at Franz Liszt‘s Second Hungarian Rhapsody this time performed on the Piano by Bugs Bunny in Friz Freleng‘s “Rhapsody Rabbit” Vezi Rhapsody Rabbit pe 220.ro
