  Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies CDInspired and wildly imaginative, Beethoven's Wig is one of the best introductions to classical music you could give to your children. Featuring snippets of 11 classical music staples--Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, et al.--the disc and its creators, Richard Perlmutter and friends, pour on the silly lyrics the first time around to familiarize young ears to the old masters. Then in the last half of the record, the orchestra plays the same "serious" music pieces instrumentally. You might cheerfully recall Alan Sherman's popular spoofs of old classical works in Wig; pieces like "Drip, Drip, Drip," which adapts Delibes's "Pizzicato from Sylvia," and if so, you'll again chuckle. You'll also marvel at the expertise throughout the CD, with all the pieces well played and thoroughly fun. Beethoven's Wig is an orchestral treasure with a sense of humor as old or as new as its listeners (and the fun questions that run throughout the CD's liner notes are almost as entertaining as the zany musical interludes).
| Tracks: |
| Sing Along Symphonies |
1. Beethoven's
Wig (5th Symphony, Beethoven)
2. Franz Liszt
the Famous Pianist (Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liszt)
3. Please
Don't Play Your Violin at Night (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart)
4. Can You
Can Can? (Can Can, Offenbach)
5. Just for
Elise (Fur Elise, Beethoven)
6. Haydn's
Great Surprise (Surprise Symphony, Haydn)
7. Kings and
Queens of England (Trumpet Tune, Purcell)
8. Drip, Drip,
Drip (Pizzicato from Sylvia, Delibes)
9. Harmony (The Merry Peasant, Schumann)
10. Hey Guitar
Teacher (Bouree, Bach)
11. Tchaikovsky's
Cannonball (1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky)
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| Orchestral Performances |
12. 5th
Symphony, Beethoven
13. Hungarian
Rhapsody #2, Liszt
14. Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart
15. Can
Can, Offenbach
16. Fur
Elise, Beethoven
17. Surprise
Symphony, Haydn
18. Trumpet
Tune, Purcell
19. Pizzicato
from Sylvia, Delibes
20. The
Merry Peasant, Schumann
21. Bouree, Bach
22. 1812
Overture, Tchaikovsky |
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UPC 011661811225
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