Path 24
Music of the nations
Folk songs, dances and landscapes, from Liszt's Hungary to Márquez's Mexico.
Liszt → Smetana → Grieg → Albéniz → Dvořák → Sibelius → Elgar → Vaughan Williams → Janáček → Villa-Lobos → Rodrigo → Márquez
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S. 244/2
This guide follows Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S. 244/2 (1847) in one part.
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(Lassan) – Friska0:04–8:19
, the lassan, opens the piece with dark, melancholy music and a few playful turns. The fast friska takes over later, starting quietly in F-sharp minor and building towards its in F-sharp major. Further sections follow (B, C and D), and then the . Near the end a calm F-sharp minor passage leads to the optional , and the piece closes with a crescendo of octaves that sweeps almost the whole keyboard.
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- B
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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