Black Forest Bluegrass

Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach

Released

1979

Label

Vanguard

P. D. Q. Bach chronology

Portrait of
P.D.Q. Bach
(1977)

Black Forest Bluegrass
(1979)

Liebeslieder Polkas
(1980)

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 Weisberg, 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 (P.D.Q. Bach)

1. Recitative and Aria: "Blaues Gras"

2. Recitative: "O"

Aria: "Du Bist Im Land"

3. Recitative: "O"

Duet: "Ich Sehe"

4. Chorale: "Ich Gehe"

Duet: "Sag' Mir"

No-no Nonette for assorted winds and toys, S. 86 (P.D.Q. Bach)

5. First Movement

6. Second Movement

7. Third Movement

8. Fourth Movement

9. Last Movement

10. "Hear Me Through" from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100 (P.D.Q. Bach)

Sources

P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass

P. D. Q. Bach

see also Peter Schickele

Albums	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)

Compositions	The Abduction of Figaro Concerto for Horn and Hardart Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons The Stoned Guest Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome

Videos / DVDs	The Abduction of Figaro (1984) P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (2006)

Books	The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, 1807 – 1742? (1976, by Prof. Peter Schickele)

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