New Horizons in Music Appreciation

"New Horizons in Music Appreciation" is one of the best-known works in the P.D.Q. Bach canon, even though Peter Schickele did not write the music, either under his own name or any other. It's a performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth symphony, announced by Peter Schickele and Robert Dennis in the manner of a sporting event. The performance is straightforward, except for one or two deliberate errors.

Hidden in the sporting banter is an accurate analysis of the movement, explaining how Beethoven used sonata form, his development techniques, and the surprising (for the time) extended coda. Even the most obvious error, by horn player "Bobby Corno," is one that could occur in a real performance; the horn is a notoriously treacherous instrument to play.