Rainer Hersch

Writes and performs comedy about classical music. Conducts orchestras, plays the piano. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

Rainer Hersch Orkestra TOUR DATES AUTUMN 25 🎻 - https://t.co/l5FJA8HotE

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

My latest video. Yes, these ARE the words to Mozart’s Queen of the Night Aria. https://t.co/yrlb7Y8vVM

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

Hastings Piano Concerto Competition is making great things happen on the South coast. https://t.co/w0d65pZwvI

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

@tasminlittle Thank you. You made it extra special.

Birthday present for hanging in the loo: my photograph (with signature) of viola virtuoso Lionel Tertis and my 2024 grade 8 certificate in similar frames, so that no-one can help but be drawn to the comparison 😃

[Tasmin Little CBE @tasminlittle]

@rainerhersch a little bird told me it’s your birthday today 😃🥂🎉 wishing you a wonderful day and many happy returns! 🎂🍰

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

Hugely looking forward to my Orkestra gig in TRING, Hertfordshire on Saturday 20th. From the 1812 Overture to Star Wars by way of “Right Said Fred” - it’s gonna be great. Tickets https://t.co/UgDvuGir0H @tringefestival

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

@lisanandy @DCMS Congratulations. I have scoured your wiki page, Twitter, feed, and Facebook for any evidence that you are interested in either culture or sport and can’t find it. These are areas to which people devote their lives out of passion. I hope you will be passionate about them too.

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

This is what happened when I met the amazing solo percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie WATCH https://t.co/XZNQjkHc6o

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

My latest YouTube: All 9 Beethoven Symphonies in 4 minutes. Now, that's gotta be some kind of record https://t.co/kQBQFAZvr8

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

The HISTORY OF MUSIC as it should be taught - from Cavemen to Barbie Girl, plus the smartest explanation of Schoenberg you’ll ever see https://t.co/7MfPWXNdOC Zeb Soanes

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

This today in The Guardian. PRS should be ashamed of themselves. https://t.co/qJJJNUkN4y

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

4...the money, and that it should go to the charity, but PRS has turned us down. When I think of all the donations of time, talent and services that went into this event, this makes me sick to the core. Shame on you PRS – who are you serving except yourselves?

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

3...a charge of 4.8% of gross ticket sales + VAT. Accordingly, the PRS on those two songs amounts to £1,086.78. I have appealed this as grossly disproportionate – it is a direct loss to what we raised for Help Musicians. Even the artist themselves has said they don’t want

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

2...except for two, three-minute songs written by one of the guests and orchestrated by me. I now learn that the guest concerned is registered with the Performing Rights Society. At Cadogan Hall, if one PRS item is performed, however small, the whole programme is subject to

[Rainer Hersch @rainerhersch]

1. On April 1st I organised and performed an April Fool’s Day concert at Cadogan Hall. Over two hours of classical music-comedy entertainment to raise money for Help Musicians. The music consisted of comedy arrangements that I had either written or commissioned for orchestra

[Tasmin Little CBE @tasminlittle]

In amongst all the doom and gloom, I’m going to cheer myself up by going to this concert @cadoganhall in aid of @HelpMusicians - if @rainerhersch can’t put a smile on my face then no one can. And, let’s face it, #musicians need all the help they can get right now.

[Help Musicians @HelpMusicians]

Thanks to everyone that attended Saturday's April Fool's Gala, and to @RainerHersch for creating such a fun event to raise funds for Help Musicians. @DameEvelyn, @zebsoanes, @EarlOkin, James Oldfield and all the performers were brilliant, it was a great evening.

[Zeb Soanes @zebsoanes]

Well that was a wonderfully BONKERS night on stage with @rainerhersch and @DameEvelyn at the @cadoganhall in aid of @HelpMusicians — an orchestrated Shipping Forecast (in which I got very wet) and The History Of Music (in 5 minutes!) Lovely to be supported by @tasminlittle too 🙏

[Bridget Cusack @BridgetCusack]

@zebsoanes @rainerhersch @DameEvelyn @cadoganhall @HelpMusicians @tasminlittle A fantastic event thank you so much from everyone @HelpMusicians

[Bridget Cusack @BridgetCusack]

Really looking forward to this event, raising funds for @HelpMusicians . Thank you to @rainerhersch @DameEvelyn @zebsoanes James Oldfield, @EarlOkin and all the musicians performing at @cadoganhall