P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass
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Performer: Bill KeithPerformer: Donald Palma
Performer: Peter Schickele
Composer: P.D.Q. [pseudonym of Peter Schickele] Bach
Conductor: Robert Bernhardt
Performer: New York Pick-Up Ensemble
Performer: Happy Traum
Performer: Eric Weisberg
Performer: John Ferrante
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-01-25
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Cant: Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata): Recitative and Aria: 'BLAUES GRAS' - JOHN FERRANTE/PROF. SCHICKELE
- Cant: Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata): Recitative: 'O'/Aria: 'DU BIST IM LAND' - JOHN FERRANTE/PROF. SCHICKELE
- Cant: Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata): Recitative: 'O'/Duet: 'ICH GEHE' - JOHN FERRANTE/PROF. SCHICKELE
- Cant: Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata): Chor: 'ICHE GEHE'/Duet: 'SAG' MIR' - JOHN FERRANTE/PROF. SCHICKELE
- NO-NO NONETTE for assorted winds & toys (S. 86): First Movt - Wind octet and percussion/PROF. SCHICKELE
- NO-NO NONETTE for assorted winds & toys (S. 86): Second Movt - Wind octet and percussion/PROF. SCHICKELE
- NO-NO NONETTE for assorted winds & toys (S. 86): Third Movt - Wind octet and percussion/PROF. SCHICKELE
- NO-NO NONETTE for assorted winds & toys (S. 86): Fourth Movt - Wind octet and percussion/PROF. SCHICKELE
- NO-NO NONETTE for assorted winds & toys (S. 86): Last Movt - Wind octet and percussion/PROF. SCHICKELE
- Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions: 'Hear Me Through' - Wind octet and percussion/PROF. SCHICKELE
Free Music Notes for P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass
Free Music Review: An essential part of the hard-core P.D.Q. Bach-lover's collection
Hit: 4 Stars
Although this album contains the relatively minor and impenetrable Bluegrass Cantata (I speak German and the puns contained in the work are about as groan-inducing as those that are the hallmark of Peter Schickele's radio program, Schickele Mix), the real jewel of the album is the octet for winds and a bizarre assortment of percussion instruments, the No-No Nonette.
This work is full of clever musical puns and inside jokes that characterize Schikele's later, more mature musical satires like the 1712 Overture and the Short-Tempered Clavier. Like those works, the jokes are purely musical and instrumental, except in those places where the musical toys add a touch of Spike Jones. Where else but in Schickele's world could a wind octet feature a beautiful oboe solo (2nd movement) that suddenly goes haywire, making the soloist make an horrifying leap down from the instruments's highest register to it's lowest played deliberately flat, only later to have the same melody played in country-style parallel thirds by alternating pairs of clarinets and oboes? It's almost like a Mozart octet playing the Judds.
The penultimate movement is a stroke of genius, with frenetic oboe and horn riffs sounding like something out of Dvorak's wind music framing a B section featuring a serene horn solo (with clarinets murmuring along) echoed by a music box playing an identical passage (per Schickele custom made for his composition according to later commentary on Schickele Mix). . .after each horn entrance the music box is opened again to play, clearly having not been wound since the prior measures. With each entrance, it adds to the schmaltz of the tune by playing ever slower.
This album is not for the P.D.Q. Bach dabbler who wants a quick laugh from some of his more obvious satires, but I spent years trying to find this album back in print just so I could enjoy this underrated part of the P.D.Q. Bach canon.
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