This is one of the most clever and enjoyable pieces of classical music that I know. Ernest Tomlinson's story is quite an impressive one, but the quick story here is that he weaved bits of 152 other songs in this composition. It's a challenge to recognize them all which is why I have a (partial) cheat sheet below. What a fun song.
0:33- Auld Lang Syne
2:10 - Gounod’s Soldier Chorus from Faust
2:15 - The British Grenadiers
2:24 - Leroy Anderson’s The Rakes of Mallow
2:42 - Cesar Franck’s Symphonic Variations
2:52 - Chopin's Piano Sonata No.2, 2nd movement
3:09 - Elgar's Enigma Variations, main theme
3:37 - Beethoven's Symphony No.9, 4th movement, "Ode To Joy"
3:53 - Haydn’s St.Anthony Chorale
4:06 - Purcell's Abdelazer, "Rondeau" or Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
4:23 - Schubert’s Trout Quintet, 4th movement
4:32 - Haydn's Symphony No.94, 2nd movement
4:50 - Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
5:33 - Dvorak’s Humoresque no 7
5:41 - Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer
5:44 - Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique symphony 3rd movement
5:51 - A Life on The Ocean Wave
5:51 - Auld Lang Syne
5:54 - Khachaturian’s Adagio from Spartacus
6:14 - Mendelssohn’s Overture to The Hebrides
6:51 - Mozart's Piano Sonata No.16, first movement
7:09 - Handel's Entry of the Queen of Sheba
7:23 - Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Little Swan from Swan Lake
7:27 - Bach’s Fugue in C minor from Well-Tempered Clavier
7:31 - Arthur Sullivan ... "Major General" (Pirates of Penzance)
7:32 - The Keel Row
7:44 - Bizet's Overture to Carmen
7:53 - This Old Man
8:00 - Thomas-Arne’s Rule-Britannia
8:08 - Strauss Jr’s Voice of Spring Waltz
8:53 - Tchaikovsky’s Valse no. 2 from Swan Lake
9:25 - Weber’s Invitation to the Dance
9:31 - Je veux vivre (Juliet's Waltz) from Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod
9:46 - Strauss. Jr’s Waltz from Die Flaudermaus
10:05 - Chopin's Grand Valse Brilliante
10:55 - Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings, 2nd movement
11:26 - Smetana’s Dance of the Comedian from The Bartered Bride
12:26 - Strauss. Jr’s Perpetuum Mobile Polka
12:35 - Mozart’s French Horn no. 4, 3rd movement
12:42 - Shenandoah
12:48 - Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance no 2 op.46
12:53 - Wi’a Hundred Pipers
12:59 - Offenbach's Can-Can Dance
13:02 - Schubert's Military March No.1, or Stravinsky's Circus Polka
13:13 - Offenbach's Can-Can Dance
13:22 - Rossini’s La Danza from Les Soirée Musicales
13:38 - Mysterious Pizzicato
13:44 - Bach’s A Riercar a 6 from The Musical Offering
14:24 - Rossini’s Overture to Semiramide
13:56 - Dark Eyes
14:07 - Koenig’s Post Horn Gallop
14:42 - Benjamin’s Jamaican Rumba
14:50 - Khachaturian's Sabre Dance
15:02 - Rossini's Overture to "The Barber of Seville"
15:04 - Bizet's L' Arlesienne Suite No.2, "Farandole"
15:07 - Glinka's Overture to "Ruslan and Ludmilla"
15:20 - Goodnight, Ladies
15:57 - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
17:56 - Verdi's Le donna e mobile, from "Rigoletto"
16:41 - O, Come All ye Faithful
17:47 - La Curachacha
17:58 - The Girl I left behind
18:04 - Yankee Doodle
18:06 - Good King Winceslas
18:10 - Sailor's Hornpipe
18:19 - Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt
18:26 - Dvorak’s New World Symphony, 2nd movement
1 comment:
Excellent, a yearly event now, what a demonstration of talent and virtuosity. Happy New Year to all.
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