Music that Makes you Laugh Out Loud

[Roehre]

Barber: Die natalis opus 37, especially the arrival of the magi is hilarious....

[EdgeleyRob]

Mozart, Gran Partita,last movement,every time.

[Serial_Apologist]

Wilfred Josephs is a composer we hear little if anything of these days. In the early part of his output is a piece titled Concerto a Dodice (1960), strictly written in the 12-tone serial method, in which nevertheless he manages to obtain oompah harmonies out of it. Hilarious.

[Petrushka]

Wilfred Josephs is a composer we hear little if anything of these days.

His theme tune to the BBC TV series The Great War is one of those that's once heard never forgotten. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHm7fNDDY9Y

[Serial_Apologist]

His theme tune to the BBC TV series The Great War is one of those that's once heard never forgotten. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHm7fNDDY9Y

Thanks for this, Petrushka - I missed that series being still away at boarding school.

They really knew how to write them in those days!

[Barbirollians]

The music of Peter Maxwell Davies - but for all the wrong reasons.

[Hornspieler]

The music of Peter Maxwell Davies - but for all the wrong reasons.

[MrGongGong]

Today

THIS

http://alexrossmusic.typepad.com/audio/Messiahcrack.mp3

[MrGongGong]

have we had this ?

[Flosshilde]

Thanks for sharing information. Actually I had also the same question in mind for a long time anyways you started this thread & I bgg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o

[Nick Armstrong]

The bit in the finale of Rodion Shchedrin’s Suite from Bizet’s Carmen where the Toreadors’ music comes in on xylophone Great joke.

Heard today (towards the end of Afternoon Concert) for the first time... and I’m sure it’s intentionally funny. Loved the twist on a hackneyed piece (the whole Suite isn’t bad).

I keep hearing Shchedrin pieces I like... such as his Concerto for Orchestra No 1 “Naughty Limericks” on TTN a few months back

[Tony Halstead]

Thanks for this, Petrushka - I missed that series being still away at boarding school.

They really knew how to write them in those days!

No, not 'they' ( many) but JOSEPHS, who in his own way was a genius, having the amazing ability ( like Liz Lutyens) to write 'retail music ' , wonderfully ( Hammer Horror for LL) ) but still retained the ability to write his own genuine 'creative music'. I will always remember being on a 6-week 'world tour' playing with the English Chamber Orchestra in about 1973 when we played WJ's Concerto for 2 violins, conducted by Barenboim. Not exactly a masterpiece but a 'gem'!

[Oakapple]

Ralph Vaughan Williams - the concertina effect in the third movement of the London Symphony and the waddling penguins in the second movement (I think) of the Sinfonia Antartica.