Rhapsodies

musical form

1924 composition by George Gershwin

concertante by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel featuring a virtuosic violin part. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano (with optional luthéal attachment). The first performance took place in London on 26 April 1924 with the dedicatee, Jelly d'Arányi, on the violin and Henri Gil-Marchex at the piano. In his biographical sketch of 1928 Ravel termed it a rapsodie de concert, as "a virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody". It consists of "a string of successive variations juxtaposed without development".

rhapsody for low voices composed by Johannes Brahms; musical setting of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Harzreise im Winter"

orchestral rhapsody by Maurice Ravel

composition by Leoš Janáček

orchestral composition by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier

composition for clarinet and piano by Claude Debussy

composition for solo piano by Franz Liszt

piano pieces by Johannes Brahms

set of compositions by George Enescu

Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra was the final work of composer Ernest Bloch's Jewish Cycle. Schelomo (the Hebrew form of "Solomon"), which was written in 1915 to 1916, premiered on May 3, 1917, played by cellist Hans Kindler. Artur Bodanzky conducted the concert, which took place in Carnegie Hall. This concert included other works from Bloch's Jewish Cycle, including the premier of Bloch's work the Israel Symphony, which Bloch himself conducted. Three Jewish Tone Poems was also on the concert, but it had premiered two months earlier in Boston.

concert overture composed by Carl Nielsen

symphonic rhapsody composed by Hugo Alfvén

composition for piano by George Gershwin