Sunday, December 29, 2024

Ernest Tomlinson - Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne

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:

libertyman said...

Excellent, a yearly event now, what a demonstration of talent and virtuosity. Happy New Year to all.