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Other syllabi : ABRSM Grade 8
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This Rhapsody in B minor reads as a dramatic, rugged piece, alternating percussive figures and lyrical episodes where sharp dynamic contrasts create a tense rather than reflective atmosphere. Technically you will need to focus especially on Independence of the hands (4.6/5) — here one hand often sustains a rhythmic accompaniment or inner voices while the other projects the main line, requiring separate control of phrasing and accents — and on Octaves (3.9/5), which demand precise jumps and a relaxed arm position to produce forceful passages without tension. The work is one of the piano rhapsodies in Brahms's Op.79 and belongs to his corpus of compact, harmonically rich piano pieces. I do not give a reference performance here because I prefer not to risk naming an inaccurate recording.