Billy Mayerl's "April Fool" sets the mood for an evening of musical foolishness and fun, with a few excursions into the serious. Violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica bring us the wacky "McMozart's Eine kleine bricht Moonlicht Nicht Musik" and the more serious "Blitz" Fantasy, so named by Vato Kakhidze because he wrote it so quickly. That famous Austrian joker, the "real" Mozart, contributes "A Musical Joke" in a spirited rendering by The English Concert, led by Andrew Manze. But seriously, folksyou can hear violinist Joshua Bell play Schubert, Grieg, and Ravel sonatas at Carnegie Hall on April 8, but listen to him here in Ravel's only violin sonata. No April Fool's would be complete without contribution from Peter Schickele's favorite guy, the indefatigable P.D.Q Bach; his "Short Tempered Clavier" is given long shrift by pianist Christopher O'Riley. We go out as Anne Sophie von Otter sings "April after All."
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