Black Forest Bluegrass
1979 studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
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Released | 1979 | |||
Label | Vanguard | |||
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Black Forest Bluegrass is a recording of the music of Peter Schickele under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach, featuring the composer and "a bluegrass band with a Baroque orchestra, a wind octet with toys, a commercial with a snake — this album has it all!" The album was released on Vanguard Records in 1979.
Performers
- Professor Peter Schickele, bass, conductor, snake (that's an instrument)
- The New York Pick-Up Ensemble, Robert Bernhardt, conductor
- John Ferrante, tenor
- Eric Weissberg, mandolin and harmonica
- Bill Keith, banjo and harmonica
- Happy Traum, guitar and harmonica
- Donald "Don" Palma, bass and harmonica
According to the liner notes on the album, the performers pictured on the cover are Tommy Mann and his Magic Mountain Boys.
Track listing
- Cantata: Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata), S. 6 string
- Recitative and Aria: "Blaues Gras"
- Recitative: "O"
- Aria: "Du Bist Im Land"
- Recitative: "O"
- Duet: "Ich Sehe"
- Chorale: "Ich Gehe"
- Duet: "Sag' Mir"
- No-no Nonette for assorted winds and toys, S. 86
- First Movement
- Second Movement
- Third Movement
- Fourth Movement
- Last Movement
- "Hear Me Through" from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100
Sources
P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass
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- An Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1965)
- An Hysteric Return (1966)
- Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air (1967)
- The Stoned Guest (1970)
- The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (1971)
- The Intimate P. D. Q. Bach (1974)
- Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach (1977)
- Black Forest Bluegrass (1979)
- Liebeslieder Polkas (1980)
- Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head (1982)
- A Little Nightmare Music (1983)
- 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1989)
- Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1990)
- WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1991)
- Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1992)
- Two Pianos Are Better Than One (1994)
- The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard (1995)
- The Dreaded P. D. Q. Bach Collection (1996)
- The Ill-Conceived P. D. Q. Bach Anthology (1998)
- The Jekyll and Hyde Tour (2007)
- The Abduction of Figaro (1984)
- P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (2006)
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