Black Forest Bluegrass is a recording of the music of Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...

 under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a gag that Schickele has developed over a five-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family...

, featuring the composer and "a bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 band with a Baroque

Baroque music

Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...

 orchestra, a wind octet with toys, a commercial with a snake — this album has it all!" The album was released on Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

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)

Source

P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass