Gerard Hoffnung - The Comic Genius Of Gerard Hoffnung: Classic Albums 1956-61 (2024)

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Artist: Gerard Hoffnung
Title: The Comic Genius Of Gerard Hoffnung: Classic Albums 1956-61
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Acrobat Records
Genre: Humor
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:54:45
Total Size: 678 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1

01. T. E. Bean, General Manager, Royal Festival Hall - Introductory Speech
02. Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music - Fanfare
03. Morley College Symphony Orchestra - A Grand Grand Overture
04. Dennis Brain & Morley College Symphony Orchestra - Concerto For Hosepipe And Strings (3rd Movement)
05. Yvonne Arnold & Morley College Symphony Orchestra - Concerto Popolare (A Piano Concerto To End All Piano Concertos)
06. Members of the BBC Music Division - Symphony No. 94 In G 'The Surprise' - Andante
07. Gerard Hoffnung - Speech By Gerard Hoffnung
08. Tuba Quartet - Mazurka No. 49 In A Minor, Op. 68 No. 2
09. Yvonne Arnold & Gerard Hoffnung - Lochinvar (For Speakers And Percussion)
10. Festival Ensemble conducted by Gordon Jacob - Variations On Annie Laurie

CD2

01. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Introductory Music Played In The Foyer
02. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Two Excerpts From 'A Hoffnung Festival Overture'
03. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Metamorphosis On A Bed-time Theme
04. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Sugar Plums
05. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - The Famous Tay Whale
06. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - A Movement From Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra
07. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Punkt Contrapunkt
08. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Excerpts From The United Nations
09. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Waltz For Restricted Orchestra
10. The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company & Chorus - Let's Fake An Opera, Or The Tales of Hoffnung

CD3

01. Gerard Hoffnung - Gerard Hoffnung At The Oxford Union Part 1
02. Gerard Hoffnung - Gerard Hoffnung At The Oxford Union Part 2
03. Six Trumpets, Six Trombones And Four Percussion Of The Royal Military School Of Music - Introductory Music Played In The Foyer - Rigmarole
04. The Trumpeters Of The Royal Military School Of Music - Festival Anthem
05. The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra with The Trumpeters Of The Royal Military School Of Music - Overture, Leonora No. 4
06. The Hoffnung Festival Choral Society - Duet From The Comic Opera "The Barber Of Darmstadt"
07. The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra - Ballad Of County Down, Mostly In D Major
08. The Hoffnung Festival Choral Society - Excerpt From "Belshazzar's Feast"
09. The Hoffnung Festival Choral Society - Horrortorio
10. The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra - Mobile For Seven Orchestras

Gerard Hoffnung was an extraordinarily talented personality, an artist, cartoonist, musician, broadcaster, raconteur and impresario, born in Germany in 1925, but who moved to England just before WWII, and in the 1950s started appearing on the BBC and contributing to various humorous magazines. He devised the concept of spoof classical music concerts at London's famous Royal Festival Hall, where he and a number of respected musicians and ensembles performed elaborate parodies of various serious musical, choral and spoken pieces. This 3-CD collection comprises the complete content of four albums, all recorded 'live' at his different performances, some of which were not released until after his tragic and untimely death from a cerebral haemorrhage in 1959 at the age of 34. Those albums are The Hoffnung Music Festival Concert, The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival, The Hoffnung Astronomical Music Festival, and Hoffnung At The Oxford Union. The Oxford Union album, featuring him in his solo role as a raconteur, includes his legendary barrel of bricks story, consistently in demand over the years on BBC radio record request programmes. It's a magnificently eccentric and entertaining memento of a unique and brilliant polymath.

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