The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach

The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach
Compilation album by P. D. Q. Bach
Label Vanguard Records
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach
(1977)
The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach
(1978)
Black Forest Bluegrass
(1979)

The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach is a collection of works by Peter Schickele under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach originally recorded on the Vanguard Records label by the composer. It includes "lowlights" from four different Vanguard albums: An Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742)?, An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall, Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air, P. D. Q. Bach's half-act opera The Stoned Guest, and Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach. Wurst is the German word for sausage.

Contents

Performers

Track listing (two disc version)

Disc one

  • Larghissimo – Allegro Boffo
  • Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio
  • Adagio Saccharino
  • Yehudi Menuetto
  • Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
  • Allegro
  • Romanze
  • Menuetto
  • Rondo

Disc two

  • IV. Andante – Allegro
  • Introduction
  • Overture
  • Recitative and aria: "Now is the season"
  • Recitative and trio: "I'm sure I'd be"
  • Intermission feature: Opera Whiz
  • Plot Synopsis
  • Finale: "O saviour"
  • Chorus: "Tarragon of virtue is full"
  • Recitative: "And there were in the same country"
  • Duet: "Bide thy thyme"
  • Fugue
  • Recitative: "Then asked he"
  • Chorale: "By the leeks of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept"
  • Aria: "Open sesame seeds"
  • Recitative: "So saying"
  • Duet: "Summer is a cumin seed"
  • Chorus with Soloists: "To curry favor, favor curry"

Track listing (single disc version)

  • Allegro
  • Tema con variazione
  • Menuetto con Panna e Zucchero
  • Aria
  • Recitative
  • Ground
  • Recitative
  • Aria
  • Larghissimo – Allegro Boffo
  • Menuetto con Brio ma senza Trio
  • Adagio Saccharino
  • Yehudi Menuetto
  • Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio
  • Allegro
  • Romanze
  • Menuetto
  • Rondo

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