Beethoven's Wig - Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies
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Artist: Beethoven's WigBrand: Rounder Kids
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Beethoven's Wig (5th Symphony, Beethoven)
- Franz Liszt the Famous Pianist (Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Liszt)
- Please Don't Play Your Violin at Night (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart)
- Can You Can Can? (Can Can, Offenbach)
- Just For Elise (Fur Elise, Beethoven)
- Haydn's Great Surprise (Surprise Symphony, Haydn)
- Kings and Queens of England (Trumpet Tune, Purcell)
- Drip, Drip, Drip (Pizzicato from Sylvia, Delibes)
- Harmony (The Merry Peasant, Schumann)
- Hey Guitar Teacher (Bouree, Bach)
- Tchaikovsky's Cannonball (1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky)
Music reviews of Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies
Music Review: Teaching Kids to Love Classical Music
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a great product. The kids love it. Some reviews have mentioned that the lead vocalist is not very melodic. However, I see this as a plus. He has a zany way of cracking his voice which is a hilarious complement to the other opera-class voices on the CD.
My kids seem to love the instrumental-only versions now that they associate these with the vocal versions.
Description of Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies
GENERAL FEATURES: Beethoven's Wig Sing Along Symphonies are zany stick-in-your-head lyrics set to the greatest hits of classical music. Filled with fact and fancy about the world's most notable composers and their masterpieces, each Sing Along Symphony opens the door to "serious music" in a way that's fun. As a bonus, the orchestral performance of each classical piece is included without lyrics. Educational entertainment for all ages.Inspired 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 and you'll again chuckle at pieces like "Drip, Drip, Drip," which adapts Delibes's "Pizzicato from Sylvia." You'll also marvel at the expertise throughout the CD, with all the pieces well played yet 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). Highly recommended. --Martin Keller
Ballets CDs
- Styles > Classical > Ballets & Dances
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- ( D ) > Delibes, L?o
- ( H ) > Haydn, Franz Joseph
- ( L ) > Liszt, Franz
- ( M ) > Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- ( O ) > Offenbach, Jacques
- ( P ) > Purcell, Henry
- ( S ) > Schumann, Robert
- ( T ) > Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich > All Works by Tchaikovsky
- Forms & Genres > Serenades & Divertimentos
- Short Forms > Bagatelles
- Symphonies > Classical
- Romantic
- Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music > Overtures
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Composers > Purcell, Henry
- General
- Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- General
- Early Music
- Romantic (c.1820-1910) > Ballets & Dances
- Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- General
- Instruments > Keyboard > General
- Strings > Lute
- Symphonies > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Romantic (c.1820-1910)
- Operettas
- General
- Chamber Music > General
- Children's Music > General
- Compilations
- Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach
- Beethoven, Ludwig van - Works by Beethoven
- Haydn, Franz Joseph - Works by Franz Joseph Haydn
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Offenbach, Jacques - Works by Offenbach
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( D ) - Delibes, L?o - General
- Classical - Historical Periods - Baroque (c.1600-1750) - Composers - Purcell, Henry - General
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