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''Rhapsody'' is a 1915 piece for piano solo by the English composer John Ireland. A performance takes about 8 minutes. ''
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'' (September 2010) called it "one of Ireland’s most important piano works". In the ''
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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 L'isle joyeuse, L. 106 (The Joyful Island) is a piece for solo piano by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. According to Jim Samson (1977), the "central relationship in the work is that between material based on the whole-tone scale, the lydian ...
''" (1904).


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