PIANO GOD can't finish the piece! | Dudley Moore Beethoven piano PARODY | Marc-André Hamelin

[@daisytwotoes]

It takes a level of virtuosity to pull off this kind of satire, which Mr. Hamelin has in spades.

[@bifeldman]

Hamelin is a god. And humor is the hardest thing to pull off in music.

[@trombone113]

Oh, I don't know. One day playing in the 1st Marine Division Band, we were on ship leaving Sydney, Australia in Sydney Harbor. We had been playing all the standard marches and such. But when the ship got close to the dock and you could see all the families. All the kids. That was when we played Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid. The crowd went nuts. And the kids did too considering the movie had just recently come out. This was the fall of 1992 and we were there for the9 remembrance and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Guadalcanal. One of the first battles in the long run of the island hoping campaign in the south Pacific.We lost a lot of Marines on that small strip of land. The Marine Corps never forgets.

[@bencole342]

Hamelin’s Variations of Paganini is perhaps the funniest thing I’ve ever experienced across all mediums of comedy

[@mudsharkbytes]

True humor through purely musical means is difficult to pull off without resorting to some kind of Spike Jones effects. It’s easy to make people cry with music, making them laugh is a different matter.

[@deldridg]

@@trombone113 Great story - wish I'd been there with my kids (who weren't born then, but had they been...!). Cheers from Sydney - Dave

[@StevesSlideandJazz]

The shifts to minor are awesome. Also the heavy Beethoven notes mixed with airy Mozartian fills, just perfect.👌🏼 And those double handed scales! Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 “I can’t end it!”

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Thanks a ton!

[@baitcommajail]

Dudley Moore was, in fact, musically very talented.

[@HeartofthePiano]

Watching this makes you realise just how good Dudley Moore was!

[@Dizzyfingers2]

To think ... one of the greatest pianist today: Hamelin ... playing a work by Moore - an actor ... people forget what an amazing musician he was ... and this proves it.

[@ejb7969]

Yes, we definitely need Moore Hamelin.

[@andrewkennaugh1065]

Dudley Moore was a musician before he went into comedy and acting...Organ Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.His name is still on the plaque in the chapel,next to the organ.Dudley John Stuart Moore 1956,or thereabouts.🎼😉 People have certainly not forgotten his wonderful jazz piano playing...some of the questionable films he appeared in are best forgotten but never his outstanding musicianship.🎼🎹😃

[@Music4ibc]

@@andrewkennaugh1065 Wishful thinking. 1) No one born post-1990 even knows who Dudley Moore is, I'm afraid. 2) Those who do know who he is only know him from a handful of works: Arthur, 10, Santa Claus: The Movie, etc 3) Anyone I've ever told: "Did you know Dudley Moore was an accomplished musician" to - said they had no idea ... I'll bet you think people know who wrote the Pink Panther - and even when you say: Henry Mancini they'll still say: "Who!?"

[@meszian]

I actually get this unending vibe from the final repeated ascending scales in chopins first ballade

[@reallynotpc]

Mr Hamelin is SO funny when he wants to be. So are some of his own compositions.

[@timweather3847]

I saw Dudley Moore do this in Beyond the Fringe in London following the Edinburgh Festival. At the end he got up and tried to walk away from the piano while his hands kept on playing - wonderful.

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Wow. What a memory.

[@malcolmdale]

I was there too - at the fortune theatre. Never to be forgotten.

[@victorgrasscourt3382]

Great to hear someone else play Dudley Moore’s piece. Such a brilliant work.

[@liampitcher]

“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

[@wnsbug]

one of the highlights of my life was when he came to my school to perform free of charge (obv sponsored) and he autographed my liszt score with his bear claw hands. But he wrote 2011 when it was 2012, so he corrected it! lol. I own a piece of MA Hamelin's mistake.

[@bazcuda]

Very well played!! However, no one has ever even come close to eeking out all the comedy in the piece that Dudley Moore did. For example, the sheer desperation in Dudley's face and panic-stricken glances towards the audience as yet another finale takes over from the previous one, and the yell of relief as he finally manages to end the piece and slam the lid shut 🤣. I doubt he will ever be matched. RIP DM ❤️

[@CJdude22]

I sense more than a little of Victor Borge's spirit in that performance, marvelous!

[@91483]

Dudley Moore was an excellent comedian/actor AND a fantastic pianist.

[@DrJosefNemecek]

I am amazed seeing Marc-André Hamelin playing in this environment, but I remember that he played many humorous pieces. But I enjoy most his interpretations of Nikolai Medtners work.

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

There is more - him doing comedy with Rainer Hersch. Maybe it will be in another post. MAH‘s repertoire is truly amazing.

[@ejb7969]

YES PLEASE

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Dudley was a very underappreciated musician. 💜

[@stevenak115]

This is brilliant. Anyone who can take a theme and improvise it in another composers style is a win in my book. I like Richard Grayson for doing such thing. and Robert Levin is also one of my top choices for improvisers. I'm going to have to look into Marc-André Hamelin and see his performances!

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Great. The man is a complete whizz on the piano. Like - nobody better.

[@baitcommajail]

This is not original to this performer, though it is an excellent performance of piece. This is, as the title says, Dudley Moore’s version, from the original “Beyond The Fringe“ (1960).

[@stevenak115]

@@baitcommajail I see, I just watched it and you are correct. thanks for letting me know that. did Dudley improvise it?

[@baitcommajail]

stevenak115 I don’t honestly know, but I doubt it. I suspect it started out as him noodling around, and became a composed piece. I also recommend Allan Sherman’s “ The end of a symphony” performed with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. :)

[@ftumschk]

@@stevenak115 I'm fairly certain I saw Moore perform it more than once, and it seemed identical on both occasions. So not an improvisation as such, but a piece he'd committed to memory, even if he'd improvised it initially.

[@janethattam]

What sort of psychopath would give this a 👎? 5 million stars from me!!

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Lot of weird people out there.

[@janethattam]

@@RainerHerschKZbin Weird. Oes.

[@mackiceicukice]

Not psychopaths...please..just no sense of humour.

[@Johannes_Brahms65]

Well, some people think this is blasphemy, I guess.

[@RioPradipto]

OHHHH... this brings back memory, but what is more awesome, that Marc-André Hamelin played it!

[@IbrahimHoldsForth]

fair to say this humorous Dudley Moore piece has entered the canon

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

The brilliant Gerard Hoffnung, the brilliant Victor Borge and now the brilliant Rainer Hersch - their natural successor!

[@thexalon]

I always appreciated how Beethoven pioneered doing very extended codas.

[@NoferTrunions]

There was a local band that played a sequence of all the endings (or was it the beginnings) of the popular Allman Brothers Band songs.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

That would be something to hear!

[@dariodangelo8938]

Rip. genius Dudley Moore!!!!

[@DaveRx]

Lo vi 100 veces, y me sigue pareciendo maravilloso, un capo Hamelin y otro capo también Dudley Moore

[@johannebaker9730]

Wonderful. I miss live music and so enjoyed meeting you in Perth......maybe again, next year...in the meantime.........:)

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Glad you enjoyed Perth. Scotland, not Australia, of course. And thanks for watching this.

[@zolatanaffa87]

music must trigger emotions ... and hilarity is also an emotion! A really nice performance. Tnx for sharing this! Cheers

[@winfriedg.hallerbach6249]

Brilliant rendition of Dudley Moore’s master mock piece !

[@robertjames6085]

Hahaha this is great thanks for the videos 👍😂

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Glad you like them!

[@makaan699]

You got me baited, I know this piece but still expected some kind of failure by Hamelin. Well, I was wrong and I'm ashamed of even thinking of that.

[@chastitymarks2185]

Pure genius! Thank you for that video.

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Cool. Glad you liked it.

[@honigschlecker1]

Wow! Music AND entertainment on another level.

[@joannawronska4100]

SO AMAZING!!!!! Thank you for this awesome music, I discovered your channel on the channel of Maestro Mr.Leon McCawley, an English wonderful classical pianist and I've noticed your interesting comment, my warm heartfelt greetings from Poland, have a nice weekend. Joanna

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Thanks. Love @LeonMcCawley

[@johnferguson4089]

Great comedy but he has a brilliant technique to be able to pull this off. Well done Sir!

[@alsenwulf]

Toller Pianist ..... und der endlose Schluß - Lacher garantiert. Und der müde Zuhörer ist wohl auch aufgewacht ... 😅 😂 🤣

[@gabovizcarra]

so this is how 2021 new year's eve is gonna feel

[@jonnybennett1372]

Pure talent!

Love it!

[@MullahSteinberg]

Poor Dudley who is going to receive the royalty? Met him in the 70’s great man tragic ...

[@jeremymatthies726]

That was absolutely brilliant though i was kinda expecting him to wander off into ol' Macdonald had a farm in the middle with this being one of your productions 😁🤣

[@MiroVaclav]

This was fantastic, creative and piece of free mind. Thanks a lot👍😁

[@mariedesnoyers2254]

Awesome!

[@GeordieAmanda]

Dudley Moore was a good comedic actor and a genuine funny man, but I wish he had spent more time with his jazz and works like this one. From organ scholar, to brilliant jazz musician to Hollywood star. Not a bad resume RIP Dudley 💖

[@chriss6733]

That's cheered me up. Thankyou.

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

No problem 😊

[@metteholm4833]

I could imagine, that Beethoven would giggle in his heaven. He had lots of humour.

[@thefirstrealjaylee]

This carried elements of the theme from Bridge Over the River Kwai. Wonderful music.

[@leefisher6366]

I also picked up motes of 'Colonel Bogey' for some reason. Must be just me.

[@derikbnh]

LMAO greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Thanks. Greetings back from the UK!

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

That was great! Thanks, thanks, thhhhanks, thanks, thhh, thhh, anks, thanks, thththa thththa tha nks Thanks!!! Thanks!! Thanks! Thanks Thanks T h a n k s THANKS! THANKS! THANKS! Thanks!

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Hahah. I‘ll take that as some thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@kevelliott]

Haha! It took me a.... it took me... it took me a.... mi-i-i-i-n....minute! Minute! MINUTE!!!

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

@@kevelliott what is it supposed to sound like?

[@dankurth4232]

@@trickytreyperfected1482 Colonel Bogey March Beethoven’s version - and so it actually sounds

[@angelostropios]

Outstanding player! Cheers ☺️

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Absolutely. Thanks for watching.

[@alexkim4636]

Amazing!!!

[@sherrylhenning5630]

This is how jazz was invented.........

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Hmmm. Interesting theory....

[@rosehurst137]

Thank you 🙏 x

[@edwardblair4096]

Colonel Bogey's March. With a lot of Hoffnung thrown in.

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

No tubas here. But it was written a short while after Gerard Hoffnung died.

[@edwardblair4096]

@@RainerHerschKZbin My parents had the Hoffnung music festival records and I remember them doing those ultra-extended endings with the whole orchestra.

[@rosiefay7283]

Not Hoffnung but Dudley Moore.

[@lluisbofarullros3223]

hahaha the face of MAH at 0:33

[@sightlok]

he is amazing

[@teodorb.p.composer]

It's actually combination of Beethoven, Alkan and perfect Humor. I love this piece and Hamelin even more!

[@phwbooth]

Sheer delight.

Great video.

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Thanks!

[@rosicastaneva4748]

Както винаги, уникално!

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Много благодаря. И благодаря за гледането.

[@nicolasramirez3456]

Ladies and gentlemab Marc Andre HAaAA!!

[@lelleithmurray235]

Classic!

[@vasek8016]

Такое на выпускном экзамене надо сыграть!))

[@TheWFamilyMusic]

Klasse!

[@PrimMuso]

Wundershön!!!

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Denke ich auch.

[@mourgoukos]

if Beehtoven had a baby with mickey the mouse

[@tfpp1]

2:08 - Me when I'm trying to play Liszt's La Campanella.

[@NicolasMedtner]

Marc's comedic timing is actually better than Dudley Moore's. I'm not surprised, though, as Marc is incredibly funny! I remember with a smile him playing Ligeti's 3 Bagatelles in Risør, Norway, a number of years ago. Such fun! :-D

[@OptimusSubPr1me]

Totally unexpected. Hahahaha

[@ejb7969]

It sounds more like a cadenza than a sonata, since it changes mood so frequently. So there's an opportunity for someone to write a little concerto around it. A la maniere de Hoffnung!

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Yes, 'Sonata' is the wrong word. Not one that Dudley Moore ever used. As for a concerto based on this, not sure. I think it is complete in itself. Hoffnung is a great character and rightly remembered. But he didn't write a note. He was the Diaghilev of musical comedy, who commissioned others. It's all good fun stuff but from another, more patient time, when people knew more about classical music.

[@ejb7969]

@@RainerHerschKZbin Oh, I knew that about Hoffnung. That was my first exposure to many British composers! Malcolm Arnold's vacuum cleaner, the one who did Punkt Kontrapunkt, etc. As for audience size, I'd think a mini concerto audience would be the same size as Hamelin's, which was large enough for this performance, so ... But I'm not going to persist. If you ever change your mind, I release any and all IP claims ...

[@Guitcad1]

If you've ever been a devoted fan of Beethoven and learned anything about him and how he wrote music you'd know that he only cared about "rules" to the point that they served his artistic purposes. After that, the hell with them. He took the form known in his day as "minuet" and transformed it into something he simply labeled "scherzo" (Italian: literally, "I'm joking!"). In other words, "2nd Movement, 'Fuck You' in D-flat major!" That's just how he rolled.

[@Holywood07]

Is this beautiful piece available on sheet notes?

[@nicfripp4159]

It is, and can be seen in the video by Piers Lane of this piece - AND he found a brilliant finale too

[@omashaushalt]

Hahaha! Sehr schön! ;o)

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

Danke schön!

[@omashaushalt]

@@RainerHerschKZbin Gerne! Deine (Erklär-)Videos sind einfach immer klasse! Grüsse aus Nürnberg / Deutschland /// With pleasure! Your (explanatory) videos are always great! Greetings from Nuremberg / Germany

[@PieInTheSky9]

Okay this is great, but who's the cute violin player in the back row?

[@DanLoFat]

I said Dudley Moore try to get through this, only months before the end.

[@animalistiktiero3835]

when i improvise and try to find a good ending for my piece i do something like that and play a very very very very very very very very very long ending.

[@p1anosteve]

He plays it better than Dudley Moore but somehow it just isn't so funny. That said it is a remarkable tribute!

[@Greg-kz8ts]

Did anyone see when James Rhodes played this, but tried to play it off as his own work!?

[@jannis11]

nice

[@sharov94]

Since when the favourite key of Beethoven is c major ?

[@davidkotler7466]

They probably mean c minor - think of Beethoven's sonatas No.5, 8, and 32, his 32 piano variations in c minor, his 3rd piano concerto, 5th symphony, etc. I don't know if c minor was actually his favorite key, but he definitely used it a lot.

[@TGMGame]

bro this is literally the end of the 5th

[@daniloberaldo570]

Is it recent?

[@hntrains2]

Classical music nerd humour. More nerds in Dudley Moore's audience, though.

[@karoldettlaff5345]

Not bad parody, especially fugato, but nothing near Beethoven. The best parody of Beethoven is Beethoven himself in variations. Final more like Rossini than Beethoven :D

[@kaleidoscopio5]

Only Hamelin could play this tune even funnier that Moore himself 🤣

[@stevencarr4002]

Fine piece, with an excellent fugal section, but surely the coda is too long.

[@morganmartinez8420]

That's the funny part about this piece: the extremely long coda is clearly a reference to Beethoven's 5th symphony

[@RainerHerschYouTube]

The coda is the funny part.

[@JosephWeidinger]

I know this is just affectionate satire but honestly it's exactly why I hate the classical period in classical music.

[@Radiatoron88]

From :58 to 1:02, do you know the song MAH is referencing? As a "boomer" who grew up "overhearing" my mom's many Broadway musical LPs, I often heard the album that song comes from. And now, with a grrrrand fanfare, I'll enlighten you with the name of the song and the musical it comes from. Are you ready? Or have I not irritated you enough yet? Okay. In that case, let me tell you more about myself. Just joking! The song referenced at the above timestamp is "Hernando's Hideaway," and it comes from the 1954 musical "The Pajama Game." Can I say "Bravo myself"? Yes, I can. And just did.

[@le_jaivan]

Click bait

[@clivejackson9841]

This is not Dudley Moore

[@mrpolaroid123]

a musical typewriter. My ears bleed.

[@Guitcad1]

It's amazing how someone can play it virtually note for note and yet be so completely *_unfunny._* Tip: There's only one guy who can do this justice and he's dead. Just honor his memory and don't try to do what he did because you just can't.

[@XPKpianist]

The only unfunny thing here is your comment.

[@plekkchand]

Pretty tired old joke, really.

[@DanielMartinez-nw1pn]

And your comment isn't?

[@vova47]

Dudley played it much better and he had lightness and humour in his playing. This guy is pathetic!