Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.4 in D minor, S.359 No.4 (orchestral version) Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker
Not the best known of the Hungarian Rhapsodies, this would certainly be recognizable as one on first hearing.
Music
“Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.4 In D Minor, S.359 No.4 (Corresponds Piano Version No. 12 In C Sharp Minor)” by Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan (AmazonMP3)
“Liszt incorporated many themes he had heard in his native western Hungary and which he believed to be folk music, though many were in fact tunes written by members of the Hungarian upper middle class, or by composers such as József Kossovits,[1] often played by Roma (Gypsy) bands. The large scale structure of each was
Liszt Ferenc (musée Franz-Liszt / Budapest) (Photo credit: dalbera)
influenced by the verbunkos, a Hungarian dance in several parts, each with a different tempo. Within this structure, Liszt preserved the two main structural elements of typical Gypsy improvisation – the lassan («slow») and the friska («fast»). At the same time, Liszt incorporated a number of effects unique to the sound of Gypsy bands, especially the pianistic equivalent of the cimbalom. He also makes much use of the Hungarian gypsy scale.”
(Ssource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Rhapsodies)
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