Dudley Moore- Erlkönig

[SadisticMagician54]

For those of us born in the 80's and after Moore was lampooned as a tasteless drunken playboy on shows like the Critic. I only now realize that was his '10' persona and that there was much more to his comedic genius!

[GCLwins]

This gets my vote for the best minute of comedy ever.

Sheer perfection from start to finish. What an amazing talent, Dudley Moore.

RIP, you are missed.

[danpincus]

Yes. It is a fake Schubert song. It would be great to see score that Dud wrote. H really was immensely gifted in music.

[90Einstein]

could anybody tell my where i can find the original? Or can someone give me the text? Thx

[expatmartin]

Just brilliant especially his imitation of peter peers

[90Einstein]

My english is not good enouht to know, why the people are laughing at 0.09. I don´t understand what the "moderator" says. Can you tell me please?

[MrLieblingsessen]

What song is he playing?

[rleb09]

@MrLieblingsessen He's performing Schubert's lied/ballad Erlkönig, in which the singer portrays 4 parts: son, father, the Earl King, and the narrator by changing the register of his voice. It's actually a sad song because the father holds his ill son while they ride on horseback to the doctor's house, but the son dies in his arms by the end.

[BlueCougar]

@rleb09 This is not the "Der Erlkönig", it's the much lesser known "Die Flabbergast", as the announcer said.

[rleb09]

@BlueCougar I hope that you're being facetious.

[rleb09]

@MrLieblingsessen Once you listen to the original (and read the translation if you don't speak German) it's hilarious. 

[AntW11]

Brilliant, talented performer. Bravo

[slapattak]

o jeez. beastly.

[octavebasse8]

If only playing with yourself on a concert was still publicly acceptable. *snicker*

[andrewlowewatson]

Brilliant!



[persy1]

Such a brilliant and talented man!

[mircavalcante]

Wonderful! I think that those 24 people have serious mental problems.

[Eminem260697]

@mircavalcante u have a mental problem, because u like this shit!

[dilliduda]

he's just absolutely brilliant speeding it up like that !

[dilliduda]

manhattanvor and bekkibekkabex ... well I am german and all I understand is as a titel "die fledermaus" an as text only words like "die zwei", "spaghetti", "nicht" - wich are surley not in the poem der erlkönig

I think he was making fun of a very dull (to listen at (and to learn!)) poem (wich is so great just to read) - maybe he was referring to this guy /watch?v=5XP5RP6OEJI - he seems to have been quite well known in the U.K. in the 50's and 60's.

[violet12432]

...um...this isn't the erlkonig, i don't know why the title says that...haha

[robinmorace]

@violet12432 Yes, but Moore is rather adroitly making light of the rapidly repeated notes in the piano and the extreme registral differences in the voice that characterize Der Erlkönig.

[manhattanvor]

Bekkibekkabex - der irrt. Ich kenne Deutsch und spreche und verstehe die Sprache. Obwohl ich nicht gut schreiben auf Deutsch. Bitte, entshuldigen Sie, mich, aber nur für die. Ja, ja, “Mein Vater, Mein Vater” usw, natürlich ist das Gedicht von Goethe - Ich kenne es auswendig! Sie müss' nur gesehen haben meine Botschaft und verpasste den Grund von schreibenden es. Ich antwortete zu einer anderen Erwiderung. Ich sprach nicht vom Lied sich selbst. Sie sind ein klein, aber aufgeblasener Narr

[wisemaninmadworld]

He he he

[mkeysou812]

this had me laughing out loud

[Orfeus88]

Genius! Voice, face and hands - complete control and range!! Rest in piece my friend! We love your gifts to this world and never have you gone far whenever there is inspired laughter and light footed intelligence around - you smile and join the rest of the spirits in the ether of love and music. Thank you forever and in any form. To end life as you have - loosing slowly your ability while feeling it all is hell. No good deed goes unpunished in this life and justice is only that love lives.

[anredenwill]

That was not Erlkönig. It was funny. It was well done. But it was complete gibberish from beginning to end.

Even the title: "Flabbergar" was a nonsense word.

[weikko79]

@santajimi Obviously it is Jonathan Miller. This is from Beyond the Fringe!

[Blouchenob]

@santajimi Yeah that is Jonathon Miller. Beyond the Fringe was Moore, Cooke, Miller and Alan Bennett. Well spotted!

[invertedchords]

He's actually playing that?

[ragtimest]

wow very challenging!!!

[fergusmci]

Amazing! So, so funny.

[bourbakis]

So talented!

[radstainforth]

Dudley Moore would have been 75 today ...

[AykayUK]

The PHRASE Concentration Camp was first used in the Boer War circa 1900. Such camps have been used throughout history by many peoples. eg. from invading in 1830s til leaving in the 1960s the French used camps in Algeria.

The phrase invokes the idea of Nazi Death camps killing millions. Around 30,000 Boers died in camps.Its absolutley shameful, but your point was misleading.

Both the UK and France have dark pages in their history, but its a topic irrelevant to this video I think.

[Sackface88]

what the fuck are you taling about?

[pobz100]

I had no idea how talented this guy is. This is utter genius!

[mahler71]

France had colonies, too! Do you know why we had so many? BECAUSE WE COULD. You'd have done the same as us if you'd been capable. Why are the French so up thier own arses? Get a sense of humour. Talking of atrocities, does the name Mururoa mean anything to you?

[ttellerx]

Si vous voulez une concurrence entre les atrocités anglais et en français dites-le, d'autant que les Français ont été historiquement le plus tardif et l'abandon de leurs ambitions impérialistes. Vous rappelez-vous la guerre du Viet Nam, par hasard?

[davidts15]

ahaha that was amazing

[slimvillan]

Rest in Peace Dud, you were a genius and we'll never forget you :)

[seligster125]

Ouf! de la légèreté! C'est une blague très érudite et amusante, merveilleusement executée, qui n'a rien à voir avec l'histoire coloniale! Comment écarter toute sorte de comédie anglaise à cause de quelque mal dans le passé lointain? J'ai horreur de ce genre de pseudo-pensée banale et sans humour. D'ailleurs, aucun comédien francophone ne parvient au génie de Peter Cook et Dudley Moore. Bravo!

[anonUK]

"its a topic irrelevant to this video I think."

Right enough.

Seligster125:

Je vous suis d'accord sur l'inutilite de faire ces debats dans le forum d'Youtube. C'est pas la peine, on traite ici d'une video comique des annees 60, plutot que de l'histoire millitaire de l'Angleterre.

[MandykeClassic]

what the hell was that and even better, why?

[bassgrease]

Shut up you idiot!

[wannabedesi]

He was making fun of schuberts Erlkonig.

[philatelist26]

Un régiment irlandais...

[ianduckworth]

I believe the piece is what is called in English 'a joke.'

[LaMagnifica13]

Good lord ianduckworth, I believe you're right! ! Thank you so much for enlightening us.

[manhattanvor]

Est-il important que vous êtes un Juif?

[manhattanvor]

You miss a very important point about poetry set by Schubert and Schumann. Most of it, but not all, must be second rate. If it were first class it could not be aided by adding music to it. With the underpinnings of Schubert's piano along with Schumann and Brahms, it's quite clear that Heine etc. have new life.

I think Britten combines great poetry and musical insight in his collection "...Tenor, Horn and Strings". Who else could have possibly set "Sleep" so beautifully?

[CONTESTAR]

Dear manhattanvor, your argument is alarmingly contradictory, massively biased, thus utterly missing its point!

[bekkibekkabex]

Did you notice: this was not German but just bla bla...

And did you read every poetry peace set to music by Schubert /Schumann ?

And do you even have SOME knowledge of German and its poets in order to compare them to others?

The original "Erlkönig" was written by Goethe, a German classic whose brilliance is just comparable to Shakespeare in the English world (if at all) . Setting a peace into music is just another way of expressing it, it`s not aiding. So would you cultureless people shut up !

[bekkibekkabex]

THIS ADRESSES "MANHATTANVOR"

[serRudyll]

Are the eye movements somewhat of a parody of Fischer-Dieskau? :)

[weikko79]

Of course.

[ttryl09]

Hilarious.

[Timbul53525253]

Your bud English is excused, mate. Your being completely up your own arse isn't though. Get a life.

[pfflam]

Perhaps my French is not as good as I would wish it were but Heine and Goethe, Byron and Keats?!

What is this, a Derridean reading of Duddley Moore? Gimme a break, and give yourself a rest. No-one is 'discrediting' anybody, Constable can be enjoyed along with Turner, Shelley with Shakespeare, yes it is possible to read all of them with insight even with our collective historical murders, so why not laugh?

I agree that no English composer equaled Schubert, but show me the German Monty Python.

[danielhewson]

John Cleese and co. trump schubert any old day.

[pfflam]

Fancy

Terrible history for sure

I am your brother

It would be too bad if bitterness and ideology kept us from acknowledging one another

Besides, English humor is often downright hilarious, despite some terrible history.

and terrible histories are like anuses, M musulmane, we all have them, that doesn't mean we need to have our noses buried in them.

[pfflam]

Make note that my pot was meant as a response to: Rzeczska

[pfflam]

humorless

AND

racist

You might want to check yourself: some people actually hold ideas that inform their every perception, and sometimes those ideas are not only wrong but deeply dangerous . . or maybe just sad.

BTW, I hope you don't do anything stupid because of 'History'.

[PleiadesSeven]

mein gott! this eez fab.

[ereddet]

je ne vois pas le rapport entre votre religion, la city de londres, erlkonig, et dudley moore.eclairez moi?

[PIAN0life]

nice talent~ and wonderful performance and very funny XDDD

[ereddet]

et aucun francais n arrive a ecrire une critique differente a chaque fois, bravo! tout est bon dans l'cochon

[WelshSaddler]

Such skill and talent... take note, he NEVER looks at the keyboard during this piece. I know it's only 57 seconds, but the piano part is quite complex - this man knew his way round a piano!!!

[Paboll]

And most people just remember him as Arthur...Shame....

[sisisover18]

lol genious

[Paboll]

I'm laughing.....so good..!

[yarrtiscrapulence]

hehehe genius :) so funny i actually had tears!

[shortn1985]

Don't you there's something there of a criticism too, of singers who way overdo the "voices" thing and it's not a song anymore? Fischer-Dieskau's the one who treads that line just right in my opinion.

[Glend3]

its a parody because the original piece has different characters which one singer sings in different ranges to portray different characters and hes exadurating that (excuse my spelling)

[unisono13]

"In the style of The Erlking" - I see...

I love parodies; and that's why I CAN "see the humour of it".

And: You are right! The "Beethoven Sonata Parody" IS great! :-))

[unisono13]

Well, I do not understand why this video is called "Erlkönig". There's not an Erlkönig anywhere!

The compère says: "...by Schubert of Heine's poem..."

Heine!! Not Goethe! And the Erlkönig is written by Goethe...

[WelshSaddler]

It's a musical joke, from a musical comedy revue theatre show.... it's a made-up song called "Die Flabbergast" IN THE STYLE OF "The Erlking".

Sorry if you can't see the humour of it - it tends to be a British thing, and Dudley Moore was perfect at creating compositions of this kind (try his parody of the Beethoven form).

[Geierberzn]

I couldn't laugh at that perhaps because I'm German and we don't have humor...

So long and be aware of the mighty Erlkönig!

[tresckow]

stupid antics

[ecwaufisxtreme]

Play with himself! Flabbergast!! LMAO!!

[Takoon]

Um...why did you happen to call this Erlkonig?

[dermie12]

as it is a parody of the Eorlkonig which has a vocalist doing three  different characters in different voices the father the dying child and the Eorlkonig.

[Takoon]

Ah, I see. Because that's the only similarity I found in it. ^ ^;;

[spiderml]

dont forget those fast chord repititions, which in the liszt version is actually octaves, but thats something else to note.

[HornLocker]

Erlkonig is by Schubert, not Liszt!!! and there are also four characters:- the narrator at the beginning ('Wo reitet so spat, mit...') Schubert himself even described five characters (the fifth being the horse represented by the accompaniment. you got told...

[reaperman2004]

Yeah - but Liszt arranged the whole piece for Piano Solo....

It's a bitch to play...

[violin1158]

ernst arranged the whole piece for violin solo...THAT's a bitch to play

[reaperman2004]

Cool... I wouldn't know - don't play violin.

[amballa]

it's actually 4 different characters:

narrator

child

father

erlkönig

[TreblRebl]

u forgot one...the piano represents the horse

[calculusgirl]

The horse and the heartbeat of the little kid...morbid!