PIANO GOD can't finish the piece! | Dudley Moore Beethoven piano PARODY | Marc-André Hamelin
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2020
- Virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin can't quite get to the end of this hilarious parody. Dudley Moore comedy version of a Beethoven sonata. Introduced by conductor & comedian Rainer Hersch
MARC ANDRÉ HAMELIN www.marcandrehamelin.com
RAINER HERSCH www.rainerhersch.com
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This parody was written by Dudley Moore and performed as part of 'Beyond the Fringe', a British comedy stage revue, which premiered in August 1960 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The review was written and performed by Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore. On the official album of the show, 'The Compete Beyond The Fringe', this item is titled, somewhat enigmatically, 'And The Same To You'. It is often referred to as a parody of a Beethoven sonata but it is really only the never-ending ending (in Beethoven's favourite key of C Major) which is really reminiscent of Ludwig. The theme is from the "Colonel Bogey March", written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881-1945), the pen name Kenneth J. Alford, a British Army bandmaster who later became the director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth.
Marc-André Hamelin is playing a transcription of 'And The Same To You' made in 2009 by Rainer Hersch from various sources.
ABOUT MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
“A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), pianist Marc André Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivalled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique in the great works of the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries - in concert and on disc - earning him legendary status as a true icon of the piano. What he was doing, mixing it with Rainer Hersch and orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London on April 1st 2013 is anyone's guess but his career seems to have survived the experience.
ABOUT RAINER HERSCH
A trained conductor and pianist, British stand-up comedian Rainer Hersch has performed on every comedy stage in the UK and in more than thirty countries across the world. He has conducted many orchestras including the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony. He is responsible for UA-cam hits such as "Orchestra plays Microsoft Windows™ - the waltz" • Funny! Orchestra plays... to "The Funniest Classical Orchestra Ever" • Funniest Classical Orc... - this is the guy that actually does on a concert stage what others just talk about. To find out what Rainer did next bit.ly/1hGR52j
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It takes a level of virtuosity to pull off this kind of satire, which Mr. Hamelin has in spades.
Very well played!! However, no one has ever even come close to eeking out all the comedy in the piece that Dudley Moore did. For example, the sheer desperation in Dudley's face and panic-stricken glances towards the audience as yet another finale takes over from the previous one, and the yell of relief as he finally manages to end the piece and slam the lid shut 🤣. I doubt he will ever be matched. RIP DM ❤️
I actually get this unending vibe from the final repeated ascending scales in chopins first ballade
“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
The shifts to minor are awesome.
Also the heavy Beethoven notes mixed with airy Mozartian fills, just perfect.👌🏼
And those double handed scales! Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
“I can’t end it!”
Thanks a ton!
Dudley Moore was, in fact, musically very talented.
I saw Dudley Moore do this in Beyond the Fringe in London following the Edinburgh Festival. At the end he got up and tried to walk away from the piano while his hands kept on playing - wonderful.
Wow. What a memory.
I was there too - at the fortune theatre. Never to be forgotten.
Hamelin is a god. And humor is the hardest thing to pull off in music.
Oh, I don't know. One day playing in the 1st Marine Division Band, we were on ship leaving Sydney, Australia in Sydney Harbor. We had been playing all the standard marches and such. But when the ship got close to the dock and you could see all the families. All the kids. That was when we played Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid. The crowd went nuts. And the kids did too considering the movie had just recently come out. This was the fall of 1992 and we were there for the9 remembrance and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Guadalcanal. One of the first battles in the long run of the island hoping campaign in the south Pacific.We lost a lot of Marines on that small strip of land. The Marine Corps never forgets.
Hamelin’s Variations of Paganini is perhaps the funniest thing I’ve ever experienced across all mediums of comedy
True humor through purely musical means is difficult to pull off without resorting to some kind of Spike Jones effects. It’s easy to make people cry with music, making them laugh is a different matter.
@@trombone113 Great story - wish I'd been there with my kids (who weren't born then, but had they been...!). Cheers from Sydney - Dave
Dudley Moore was an excellent comedian/actor AND a fantastic pianist.
Great to hear someone else play Dudley Moore’s piece. Such a brilliant work.
Mr Hamelin is SO funny when he wants to be. So are some of his own compositions.
To think ... one of the greatest pianist today: Hamelin ... playing a work by Moore - an actor ... people forget what an amazing musician he was ... and this proves it.
Yes, we definitely need Moore Hamelin.
Dudley Moore was a musician before he went into comedy and acting...Organ Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.His name is still on the plaque in the chapel,next to the organ.Dudley John Stuart Moore 1956,or thereabouts.🎼😉
People have certainly not forgotten his wonderful jazz piano playing...some of the questionable films he appeared in are best forgotten but never his outstanding musicianship.🎼🎹😃
@@andrewkennaugh1065 Wishful thinking. 1) No one born post-1990 even knows who Dudley Moore is, I'm afraid. 2) Those who do know who he is only know him from a handful of works: Arthur, 10, Santa Claus: The Movie, etc 3) Anyone I've ever told: "Did you know Dudley Moore was an accomplished musician" to - said they had no idea ... I'll bet you think people know who wrote the Pink Panther - and even when you say: Henry Mancini they'll still say: "Who!?"
one of the highlights of my life was when he came to my school to perform free of charge (obv sponsored) and he autographed my liszt score with his bear claw hands. But he wrote 2011 when it was 2012, so he corrected it! lol. I own a piece of MA Hamelin's mistake.
Watching this makes you realise just how good Dudley Moore was!
I sense more than a little of Victor Borge's spirit in that performance, marvelous!
I am amazed seeing Marc-André Hamelin playing in this environment, but I remember that he played many humorous pieces. But I enjoy most his interpretations of Nikolai Medtners work.
There is more - him doing comedy with Rainer Hersch. Maybe it will be in another post. MAH‘s repertoire is truly amazing.
YES PLEASE
fair to say this humorous Dudley Moore piece has entered the canon
It's actually combination of Beethoven, Alkan and perfect Humor. I love this piece and Hamelin even more!
Dudley was a very underappreciated musician. 💜
The brilliant Gerard Hoffnung, the brilliant Victor Borge and now the brilliant Rainer Hersch - their natural successor!
What sort of psychopath would give this a 👎? 5 million stars from me!!
Lot of weird people out there.
@@RainerHerschUA-cam Weird. Oes.
Not psychopaths...please..just no sense of humour.
Well, some people think this is blasphemy, I guess.
OHHHH... this brings back memory, but what is more awesome, that Marc-André Hamelin played it!
so this is how 2021 new year's eve is gonna feel
This is brilliant. Anyone who can take a theme and improvise it in another composers style is a win in my book. I like Richard Grayson for doing such thing. and Robert Levin is also one of my top choices for improvisers. I'm going to have to look into Marc-André Hamelin and see his performances!
Great. The man is a complete whizz on the piano. Like - nobody better.
This is not original to this performer, though it is an excellent performance of piece. This is, as the title says, Dudley Moore’s version, from the original “Beyond The Fringe“ (1960).
@@baitcommajail I see, I just watched it and you are correct. thanks for letting me know that. did Dudley improvise it?
stevenak115 I don’t honestly know, but I doubt it. I suspect it started out as him noodling around, and became a composed piece.
I also recommend Allan Sherman’s “ The end of a symphony” performed with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. :)
@@stevenak115 I'm fairly certain I saw Moore perform it more than once, and it seemed identical on both occasions. So not an improvisation as such, but a piece he'd committed to memory, even if he'd improvised it initially.
Rip. genius Dudley Moore!!!!
There was a local band that played a sequence of all the endings (or was it the beginnings) of the popular Allman Brothers Band songs.
That would be something to hear!
I always appreciated how Beethoven pioneered doing very extended codas.
This was fantastic, creative and piece of free mind. Thanks a lot👍😁
music must trigger emotions ... and hilarity is also an emotion! A really nice performance. Tnx for sharing this! Cheers
Wow! Music AND entertainment on another level.
Pure talent!
Pure genius! Thank you for that video.
Cool. Glad you liked it.
Lo vi 100 veces, y me sigue pareciendo maravilloso, un capo Hamelin y otro capo también Dudley Moore
Amazing!!!
Love it!
Brilliant rendition of Dudley Moore’s master mock piece !
Hahaha this is great thanks for the videos 👍😂
Glad you like them!
Awesome!
Toller Pianist ..... und der endlose Schluß - Lacher garantiert. Und der müde Zuhörer ist wohl auch aufgewacht ... 😅 😂 🤣
That's cheered me up.
Thankyou.
No problem 😊
Great comedy but he has a brilliant technique to be able to pull this off. Well done Sir!
Wonderful. I miss live music and so enjoyed meeting you in Perth......maybe again, next year...in the meantime.........:)
Glad you enjoyed Perth. Scotland, not Australia, of course. And thanks for watching this.
Outstanding player!
Cheers ☺️
Absolutely. Thanks for watching.
Thank you 🙏 x
You got me baited, I know this piece but still expected some kind of failure by Hamelin. Well, I was wrong and I'm ashamed of even thinking of that.
That was absolutely brilliant though i was kinda expecting him to wander off into ol' Macdonald had a farm in the middle with this being one of your productions 😁🤣
Classic!
hahaha the face of MAH at 0:33
Klasse!
he is amazing
This is how jazz was invented.........
Hmmm. Interesting theory....
Wundershön!!!
Denke ich auch.
LMAO
greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Thanks. Greetings back from the UK!
I could imagine, that Beethoven would giggle in his heaven. He had lots of humour.
SO AMAZING!!!!! Thank you for this awesome music, I discovered your channel on the channel of Maestro Mr.Leon McCawley, an English wonderful classical pianist and I've noticed your interesting comment, my warm heartfelt greetings from Poland, have a nice weekend. Joanna
Thanks. Love @LeonMcCawley
This carried elements of the theme from Bridge Over the River Kwai. Wonderful music.
I also picked up motes of 'Colonel Bogey' for some reason. Must be just me.
Great video.
Thanks!
Ladies and gentlemab Marc Andre HAaAA!!
Sheer delight.
Dudley Moore was a good comedic actor and a genuine funny man, but I wish he had spent more time with his jazz and works like this one. From organ scholar, to brilliant jazz musician to Hollywood star. Not a bad resume RIP Dudley 💖
Poor Dudley who is going to receive the royalty? Met him in the 70’s great man tragic ...
Colonel Bogey's March.
With a lot of Hoffnung thrown in.
No tubas here. But it was written a short while after Gerard Hoffnung died.
@@RainerHerschUA-cam My parents had the Hoffnung music festival records and I remember them doing those ultra-extended endings with the whole orchestra.
Not Hoffnung but Dudley Moore.
Както винаги, уникално!
Много благодаря. И благодаря за гледането.
nice
I said Dudley Moore try to get through this, only months before the end.
Такое на выпускном экзамене надо сыграть!))
Hahaha! Sehr schön! ;o)
Danke schön!
@@RainerHerschUA-cam Gerne! Deine (Erklär-)Videos sind einfach immer klasse! Grüsse aus Nürnberg / Deutschland /// With pleasure! Your (explanatory) videos are always great!
Greetings from Nuremberg / Germany
That was great!
Thanks, thanks, thhhhanks,
thanks, thhh, thhh, anks, thanks, thththa thththa tha nks
Thanks!!!
Thanks!!
Thanks!
Thanks
Thanks
T h a n k s
THANKS! THANKS! THANKS!
Thanks!
Hahah. I‘ll take that as some thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
Haha! It took me a.... it took me... it took me a.... mi-i-i-i-n....minute! Minute! MINUTE!!!
@@kevelliott what is it supposed to sound like?
@@trickytreyperfected1482 Colonel Bogey March Beethoven’s version - and so it actually sounds
Totally unexpected. Hahahaha
if Beehtoven had a baby with mickey the mouse
when i improvise and try to find a good ending for my piece i do something like that and play a very very very very very very very very very long ending.
Is this beautiful piece available on sheet notes?
It is, and can be seen in the video by Piers Lane of this piece - AND he found a brilliant finale too
2:08 - Me when I'm trying to play Liszt's La Campanella.
i dont think the ending was long enough
bro this is literally the end of the 5th
Okay this is great, but who's the cute violin player in the back row?
It sounds more like a cadenza than a sonata, since it changes mood so frequently. So there's an opportunity for someone to write a little concerto around it. A la maniere de Hoffnung!
Yes, 'Sonata' is the wrong word. Not one that Dudley Moore ever used. As for a concerto based on this, not sure. I think it is complete in itself. Hoffnung is a great character and rightly remembered. But he didn't write a note. He was the Diaghilev of musical comedy, who commissioned others. It's all good fun stuff but from another, more patient time, when people knew more about classical music.
@@RainerHerschUA-cam Oh, I knew that about Hoffnung. That was my first exposure to many British composers! Malcolm Arnold's vacuum cleaner, the one who did Punkt Kontrapunkt, etc. As for audience size, I'd think a mini concerto audience would be the same size as Hamelin's, which was large enough for this performance, so ...
But I'm not going to persist. If you ever change your mind, I release any and all IP claims ...
If you've ever been a devoted fan of Beethoven and learned anything about him and how he wrote music you'd know that he only cared about "rules" to the point that they served his artistic purposes. After that, the hell with them. He took the form known in his day as "minuet" and transformed it into something he simply labeled "scherzo" (Italian: literally, "I'm joking!"). In other words, "2nd Movement, 'Fuck You' in D-flat major!" That's just how he rolled.
Is it recent?
Did anyone see when James Rhodes played this, but tried to play it off as his own work!?
Since when the favourite key of Beethoven is c major ?
They probably mean c minor - think of Beethoven's sonatas No.5, 8, and 32, his 32 piano variations in c minor, his 3rd piano concerto, 5th symphony, etc. I don't know if c minor was actually his favorite key, but he definitely used it a lot.
From :58 to 1:02, do you know the song MAH is referencing? As a "boomer" who grew up "overhearing" my mom's many Broadway musical LPs, I often heard the album that song comes from. And now, with a grrrrand fanfare, I'll enlighten you with the name of the song and the musical it comes from. Are you ready? Or have I not irritated you enough yet? Okay. In that case, let me tell you more about myself. Just joking! The song referenced at the above timestamp is "Hernando's Hideaway," and it comes from the 1954 musical "The Pajama Game." Can I say "Bravo myself"? Yes, I can. And just did.
He plays it better than Dudley Moore but somehow it just isn't so funny. That said it is a remarkable tribute!
Classical music nerd humour. More nerds in Dudley Moore's audience, though.
Marc's comedic timing is actually better than Dudley Moore's. I'm not surprised, though, as Marc is incredibly funny! I remember with a smile him playing Ligeti's 3 Bagatelles in Risør, Norway, a number of years ago. Such fun! :-D
Not bad parody, especially fugato, but nothing near Beethoven. The best parody of Beethoven is Beethoven himself in variations. Final more like Rossini than Beethoven :D
Only Hamelin could play this tune even funnier that Moore himself 🤣
Fine piece, with an excellent fugal section, but surely the coda is too long.
That's the funny part about this piece: the extremely long coda is clearly a reference to Beethoven's 5th symphony
The coda is the funny part.
Click bait
I know this is just affectionate satire but honestly it's exactly why I hate the classical period in classical music.
This is not Dudley Moore
Pretty tired old joke, really.
And your comment isn't?
It's amazing how someone can play it virtually note for note and yet be so completely *_unfunny._*
Tip: There's only one guy who can do this justice and he's dead. Just honor his memory and don't try to do what he did because you just can't.
The only unfunny thing here is your comment.
a musical typewriter. My ears bleed.
Dudley played it much better and he had lightness and humour in his playing. This guy is pathetic!