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 â 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 album's liner notes, 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
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