Music that Makes you Laugh Out Loud

[MickyD]

Thanks, I hadn't heard the Tchaikovsky Hoffnung before. This is my own particular favourite..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mu7Ccrr60

[MrGongGong]

This works for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtuj4lgJ9vw

[MickyD]

Another Hoffnung offering...with some help from Malcolm Arnold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vi7v2eVmJ0

[3rd Viennese School]

How many explanation marks does one want!!!?

I have the Tchaikovsky Hoffnung!


I have the record single of Portsmouth Sinfonia's take on Hooked on Classics.

Sounds like the Hall of the Mountain King is played on hacksaws!
And the 1812 Overture accompanied by what sounds like a damp thunderstorm. And at the wrong time as well!

3VS

[gamba]

Saint Saens - Septet. In Eb. ( mainly 1st. Movement ).

A great performance on utube including Mischa Maisky & other great players.

[MrGongGong]

Mischa Maisky .

the well know Zappa doppelganger ?

[Bryn]

Mischa Maisky, the Big Yin and FVZ would have made a great trio.

[Flosshilde]

There was a concerto for basson on In Tune at about 5.00 this evening that certainly made me feel very cheerful. I wonder if certain instruments have an inherent 'comic' factor.

[Hornspieler]

There was a concerto for basson on In Tune at about 5.00 this evening that certainly made me feel very cheerful. I wonder if certain instruments have an inherent 'comic' factor.

Depends on who's playing them. Some performances can bring tears to the eyes!

Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes:

The Welsh tenor, Parry Gorrick was giving a recital of traditional Welsh folk songs. In the front row of the audience, an elderly gentleman sat, unashamadly weeping.

At the end of the performance, the singer hurried over to speak to him.

"I was very touched by your reaction to my recital, sir." he said. " I take it that you are a Welshman?"

"No" sobbed the old gentleman. "I am a singing teacher!"

HS

[Petrushka]

Three more examples of music that makes me laugh out loud.

That point in the March to the Scaffold in the Symphonie Fantastique when the crowd cheer as another head falls. Macabre maybe but it is so darn clever you can almost see the hats go flying up in the air and it always brings a smile at the very least to the Petrushka features

Elgar's Falstaff when the fat knight is sitting snoring in his chair.

Beethoven's Symphony No 1. The last movement begins as if we are in for a tragedy but then suddenly - off it goes, all wit and good humour.

[hmvman]

Arnold's Tam O' Shanter overture. For extra laughs I sometimes imagine the piece as possibly realised by Walt Disney with Goofy as Tam.

Other pieces are the first movement of Poulenc's Concert Champêtre and Shchedrin's Carmen Ballet.

[Flosshilde]

Depends on who's playing them. Some performances can bring tears to the eyes!

Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes:

The Welsh tenor, Parry Gorrick was giving a recital of traditional Welsh folk songs. In the front row of the audience, an elderly gentleman sat, unashamadly weeping.

At the end of the performance, the singer hurried over to speak to him.

"I was very touched by your reaction to my recital, sir." he said. " I take it that you are a Welshman?"

"No" sobbed the old gentleman. "I am a singing teacher!"

HS

I was thinking of instruments at the lower end of their group - for example, the basson, tuba or double bass, which seem to me to have a rather ponderous nature (to anthropomorphise, I would see them as rather elderly, portly men) (my apologies to any board members who might fit this description ) especially when they are featured in a concerto, which to my mind requires a certain nimbleness. The hippopotomi in the Dance of the Hours section of Disney's Fantasia (if I can switch horses - or species - in mid-stream) convey the idea.

[Franzl01]

Oh dear! So many pieces bring a smile to these jaded cheeks, but after 'sleeping on' the problem I have lighted on Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 16 in G, Op.31 No. 1. The outer movements are sheer joy, especially the final Rondo with its cheeky sideways glance at Boccherini's famous Minuet, while the slow movement is full of the most delicious ornamentation.

There, I've done it, but I am bound to wake up tomorrow convinced that I should have chosen something else!

Greetings from sunny Portugal again - we are threatened with below zero temperatures tonight - oh well.

[EdgeleyRob]

[vinteuil]

In the "Letters to his Son" Lord Chesterfield , writing from Bath on 9 March 1748:


"I would heartily wish that you may often be seen to smile, but never heard to laugh while you live. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners; it is the manner in which the mob express their silly joy at silly things; and they call it being merry. In my mind there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition, and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody; but I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh."