Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

Rhapsody Rabbit meets the cast of Family Guy...  Picture: Alamy / Fox / Courtesy Everett Collection By Sophia Alexandra Hall, ClassicFM @sophiassocials   Are your favourite cartoon characters musical maestros or faking frauds? YouTuber Amosdoll Music explores the animation of the pixelised pianist. Cartoon characters we know and love have often been proved to be unexpected musical maestros when a   piano   is placed in front of them. From Bugs Bunny, to Lois Griffin, to various Simpson family members, a piano-playing character is almost a staple in the world’s most famed animations. But one musical YouTuber has taken a deeper dive into the so-called ‘talents’ of these much loved animations, to see just how accurate their piano-playing is. Last month, YouTuber  Amosdoll Music  started the series, ‘ Piano Animated Vs What they Actually Sound Like ’, on his channel which boasts over two million subscribers. The content creator has since made over 100...

  If you start typing “Beethoven” into YouTube’s search bar, “Beethoven 5th symphony” is the first auto fill option. Probably the world’s most popular symphony, everyone has heard it even if they couldn’t name it. Its iconic four-note opening motif is instantly recognizable. But as always – there’s more to the story of Beethoven’s famous Symphony in C Minor, No. 5.  About the composition  Despite the work’s formal title, its famous opening doesn’t reach a true C minor until the third repetition of the four notes. While the symphony does quickly get to C minor, it concludes in a hearty C-major coda. You can hear a lighter, more festive version of the opening of the first movement played in C-major here.  Beethoven was already growing deaf when he started his fifth symphony in 1804. He began working on it short after finishing his third symphony. Even so, he was working on so many other works at the time, it took him four years to complete it. It wasn’t just the other ...

– how many can you spot? By Elizabeth Davis , ClassicFM London YouTuber Grant Woolard has created an amazing mashup using some of the most famous works by composers including  Tchaikovsky , Beethoven, Mozart and Bizet image: http://assets5.classicfm.com/2017/02/classical-mashup-1484062872-article-0.png There’s music from  Tchaikovsky 's  The Nutcracker , iconic melodies from Bizet's  Carmen , music by Brahms, Chopin – and even a starring role for the less well-known composer, John Philip Sousa.  So, how many famous works can you spot? Here's a clip: Play 52 works by 31 composers – all in one piece of music How many can you spot? 01:01 image: http://cf.c.ooyala.com/NweGV1ODE6gDi1gChgxeeZUocyht3aJm/DLOokYc8UKM-fB9H4yMDoxOjA4MTs8z0   And here's the whole piece: This is us right now:  This is the second time Grant has created a piece from some of the most greatest works of  classical music ....