Sonic Asymmetry

Franz Liszt: “Hungarian Rhapsody No.2”

フランツリスト：「ハンガリー狂詩曲第2番」

TIME COMMITMENT: 8 minutes

The short duration ensures that this quintessential romantic form remains enigmatic in its quasi-patriotic delirium.  Worse, it sounds almost contrarian in its multiform pithiness.  Despite the ubiquity of virtuoso fireworks, the middle section seems to leave quite a lot of freedom for imaginative, oxygenated phrasing.

MUSIC

INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Rhapsody_No._2

A REFLECTION

With frost fall upon my bed,

The ice upon my pillow

Cannot melt away-I lack the strength to die-

Leaving unfulfilled

The vow I made to you.

Fujiwara no Teika: “Love in Winter”