The Hoffnung Festival of Music (1988)

This CD set was distilled from a 1988 gala at London's Royal Festival Hall by the Philharmonia Orchestra and a multitude of guests, all performing in a satiric salute to Gerard Hoffnung and the peculiar brand of classical music satire that the cartoonist and humorist devised in the 1950s.

It contained Reizenstein’s Concerto populare, which starts out with Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto in the orchestra while the pianist is wrestling with Grieg's. Not only are the themes intertwined but imaginative additional touches abound. On to Rachmaninov 2, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto, Pop Goes the Weasel and Roll Out the Barrel, played in various styles, and back to the Tchaikovsky against the Grieg, except now piano and orchestra are transposed ...

And it included Malcolm Arnold's Grand, Grand Overture (dedicated to President Hoover), of which also the video of a recent performance is available here (illustrating the dedication more clearly than the audio-only version).