Unusually, the second movement of Bela Bartok's Out of Doors is a chromatic one, and, though simpler, the "June" movement of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons is also a relatively complex example of this genre.
The first movement of Rachmaninoff's "Fantasie-Tableaux for 2 Pianos" is in this form. Unusually, the second movement of Bela Bartok's Out of Doors is a chromatic one, and, though simpler, the "June" movement of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons is also a relatively complex example of this genre. Gabriel Faure's ballade is often recorded together with his thirteen pieces in this form, the most famous of which is the third in G flat. Chopin only wrote one for the piano, his F Sharp Minor Op. 60, while the most famous begins "Belle nuit, o nuit amour" and is sung by Giulietta and Nicklausse in Act II of The Tales of Hoffman. Appropriately, one plays as Joseph Porter's (*) boat enters in HMS Pinafore. For 10 points, name this genre of slow, rolling Venetian boat songs.
The first movement of Rachmaninoff's "Fantasie-Tableaux for 2 Pianos" is in this form.
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