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Clearly, some of the reviewers here didn't "get" that this is a spoof. My wife and I saw them perform much of this program and more at the Utrecht festival a number of years ago and it was the funniest performance -- yet superbly performed -- that I've ever attended.
It would have been even better to have had one of these performances available on video, "Victor Borge-style". You can't see the interactions between the performers on the CD which were half the fun. You can imagine how much you would miss if you only had audio recordings of Victor Borge's performances. The same is true here.
One of most memorable pieces performed on that program in Utrecht is not on this recording. At the beginning of the second half, one of the singers came out with a pianist not seen in the first half to perform Purcell's Music for a While. OK, I thought. Odd choice of piano to accompany him on this Baroque work at an Early Music festival but I'm open to it. We'll see what happens.
The piano plays the introduction, the singer begins singing the piece beautifully. After a few more bars we hear a note in the piano that clearly doesn't belong there. Then a couple more. Then a LOT more as the accompanist morphs the accompaniment into a full-fledged jazz rendition of the accompaniment while the singer plays it straight. What a hoot!! Too bad it didn't make the recording!
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