Rhapsodies

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 Gypsy music he researched into this works. It gives the violin solo a wonderful haunting quality that I’m really getting into.