A Little Nightmare Music

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A Little Nightmare Music
Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1983
Label	Vanguard
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
Music You Can't Get Out Of Your Head (1982) A Little Nightmare Music (1983) 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1989)

A Little Nightmare Music is recording of the music of P. D. Q. Bach, featuring Professor Peter Schickele and is described as "P.D.Q. Bach’s opera in one irrevocable act, based on a dream he had December 4, 1791, the night that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died and Antonio Salieri didn't" (see Antonio Salieri#Salieri and Mozart). The album was released on Vanguard Records in 1983.

[edit] Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele conducting the New York Pick-Up Ensemble
• James Billings, baritone (Antonio Salieri, a successful composer)
• Bruce Ford, tenor (Peter Schläfer, a mysterious writer)
• Gerald Tarack, violinist (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a not successful composer)
• Paul Dunkel, flute
• Susan Palma, flute
• Steve Taylor, oboe
• Pamela Epple, oboe
• Charles Russo, clarinet
• John Moses, clarinet
• Lauren Goldstein, bassoon
• Jane Taylor, bassoon

[edit] Track listing

A Little Nightmare Music, an opera in one irrevocable act, S. 35 (P.D.Q. Bach)

1. Aria: "What sweet music" (Salieri)

2. Aria: "Nature gave us eyes" (Schläfer)

3. Duet: "Uh Oh"

4. Finale: "What hutzpah!"

Octoot for wind instruments, S. 8 (P.D.Q. Bach)

5. Vite, tout de suite

6. Lent, tout au moins

7. Minuet et, tout à l'heure, trio

8. Chanson: "Toute l'année, hey, hey, hey"

9. Tout à coup le bout

Royal Firewater Musick for bottles and orchestra (original version), S. 1/5 (P.D.Q. Bach)

10. Long; neat; long

11. March on the rocks

12. Minuet with a twist

13. Sarabande straight up

14. One for the road

[edit] Source

P.D.Q. Bach: A Little Nightmare Music