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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0077776330228 Label: Angel Records Manufacturer: Angel Records Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Angel Records Release Date: January 12, 1993 Studio: Angel Records
Rating: - Music + Humour
I bought this for my daughter(who's a "orch dork") for her birthday and she liked it a lot! You have to know classical music and German to be able to understand and appreciate the humor here. I'd recommend this CD for people who love classical music and humor in music.
Rating: - Hoffnung is [was?] here!
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Some of this music helped to inspire Peter Schickele's insane P.D.Q. Bach compositions. [The 1956 concert, I'm guessing, since it was available in the U.S. on a vinyl LP.] If you know what I'm talking about, you'll enjoy this 2-CD set.
It contains recordings of three performances at the Royal Festival Hall: from 1961 ... Read More
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Did not compose himself, but commissioned foremost composers of his day.
Life
Artist, teacher, caricaturist, musician and tuba player. Became famous as organiser of The Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts (first held 1956), which consisted of music caricatures.
