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Rhapsody (John Ireland)

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Rhapsody is a 1915 piece for piano solo by the English composer John Ireland.[1][2]

A performance takes about 8 minutes.[3]

BBC Music Magazine (September 2010) called it "one of Ireland’s most important piano works". In the Gramophone Awards Issue 2010, Andrew Achenbach described it as a "magnificently stormy essay". According to Muso Magazine (August 2010), it "contains the sort of wacky virtuosity found in Debussy's L'isle joyeuse" (1904).[4]

References

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  1. ^ "List of works – Q to S". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  2. ^ Rhapsody (John Ireland): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
  3. ^ John Ireland: Rhapsody, for piano at AllMusic. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  4. ^ "John Ireland – the solo piano music Volume 3". Mark Bebbington. Retrieved 1 May 2015.