Well since it is our traditional day to celebrate love, I thought I’d forgo the usual Tuesday rhapsody and go with something a little bit more appropriate. Tchaikovsky’s Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet.
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Today’s Rhapsody is Edward German‘s Welsh Rhapsody performed by the Halifax Concert Band. Apologies for the crying child.
Today’s Rhapsody is one I confess I hadn’t heard of before. I confess in doing this exercise after I finished the cursory sweep of all of the Rhapsodies everyone knows and then doing all of the Rhapsodies that were on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just stumbled over a review of a new recording of some of his piano work, so for today’s Rhapsody let’s return to Ern? Dohnányi with his Rhapsody in C Major Op.11 No.1 as played by the great Australian pianist,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is a completely new one for me. I hadn’t even heard of Eduard Lalo before today. But now having heard his Norwegian Rhapsody I very much like what I hear. I hope you all do too. http://youtu.be/Xxi_B4UlMYE
Today’s Rhapsody is Bela Bartok’s first Rhapsody for the violin with soloist Kyung-Wha Chung. I’m really enjoying becoming more familiar with Bartok’s work. He was a folklorist as well as a composer and incorporated much of the traditional Hungarian and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes… I admit it… I’m going with Liszt’s second Hungarian Rhapsody again! But since I did it with Bugs Bunny earlier this year in Rhapsody Rabbit. I thought I’d share it’s great rival The Cat Concerto with Tom & Jerry.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is Charles Martin Loeffler‘s 1st Rhapsody “L’Étang” performed by Camerata Pacifica. With Nicholas Daniel on oboe; Richard O’Neill on viola & Kevin Fitzgerald at the piano.
Today’s Rhapsodies is… Okay, I confess it’s more Liszt but hear me out. Generally when everybody says Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies what they mean is Rhapsody # 2 (and to a lesser extent 10) Forgetting that there are 19 of them.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is the second Norwegian Rhapsody by Johan Svendsen performed by WINDIANA. http://youtu.be/8r0PYpfYej0 http://youtu.be/WbeT6eMe_Hc