This is one of the two set works chosen by IB for assessment from 2020, and it allows students to approach many different concepts and themes: Romanticism and Rachmaninov's place as the ‘last great Romantic’; variation form and its Baroque history; and both instrumentation and orchestration. The Rhapsody also, as we will find out, tells a distinct story, something that's always a helpful teaching prop, and way in to listening.

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