Britten Parody

[Guido]

Not sure of this has been posted before, but its brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWP5NG-7TI

Apparently Britten objected to it quite alot (probably because it was just too accurate!)

This is also very good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazlqD4mLvw&mode=related&search=

[canninator]

Not sure of this has been posted before, but its brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWP5NG-7TI

Apparently Britten objected to it quite alot (probably because it was just too accurate!)

I can see why, he has the whole Britten/Pears Folksong down to a tee and it's hilarious. I'll never listen to The Lincolnshire Poacher in quite the same way again. Thanks for posting this.

[Mirror Image]

Better than the original!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7BCUVJkhU

That Dudley Moore was a hoot!

[PaulThomas]

These are brilliant, I can watch these over and over again.

I think I prefer the Weill parody, if only for the cod German

'und Goethe vas veray derhta'

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Better than the original!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7BCUVJkhU

Brilliant!

[Opus106]

This is also very good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazlqD4mLvw&mode=related&search=

It's hardly funny -- it's quite brilliant (on a superficial level, of course)! Despite the use of  a popular tune as a theme, I found it neither antithetical to nor a sarcastic take on Beethoven, since he has done the same on more than one occasion. However, fooling listeners into thinking that the end (of the movement) was nigh was more of a Haydn thing, no?