P. D. Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour

P. D. Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour
P.D.Q. Bach & Peter Schickele: The Jekyll & Hyde Tour
Live album by Peter Schickele
Released 2007
Recorded June 16, 2007
Genre Classical
Comedy
Length 77:00
Label Telarc
Peter Schickele chronology
The Ill-Conceived P. D. Q. Bach Anthology
(1998)
P. D. Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour
(2007)

P.D.Q. Bach & Peter Schickele: The Jekyll & Hyde Tour was released in 2007 by Telarc Records. The album contains works by Peter Schickele, sometimes as his alter-ego P.D.Q. Bach, including a collection of vocal works and a string quartet. It is a live recording of the "Jekyll & Hyde" Tour.

Contents

Performers

  • Professor Peter Schickele, piano, bass
  • Michèle Eaton, off-coloratura soprano
  • David Düsing, tenor profundo
  • The Armadillo String Quartet
Barry Socher, violin
Connie Kupka, violin
Ray Tischer, viola
Armen Ksajikian, cello

Track listing

1. Long Live The King, S. 1789 (1:58) (P.D.Q. Bach)
2. Introduction (6:30)
Four Next-To-Last Songs, S. Ώ – 1 (P.D.Q. Bach)

3. Das kleines Birdie (2:53)
4. Der Cowboykönig (3:09)
5. Gretchen am Spincycle (1:13)
6. Es was ein dark und shtormy Night (5:10)

7. Introduction (5:37)
String Quartet in F major (The Moose), S. Y2K (P.D.Q. Bach)

8. Allegro ma non troposphere (11:09)
9. Largo alla Fargo (6:10)
10. Menuetto no sweato (3:41)
11. Grave e molto deepo; Allegro con brie

Two Rounds (Peter Schickele)

12. Hedi McKinley (1:00)
13. Introduction (1:20)
14. D'Indy's Turkey (0:46)

15. Introduction (1:10)
Two P.D.Q. Bach Rounds (P.D.Q. Bach)

16. The Mule (1:02)
17. Introduction (0:13)
18. O Serpent (1:28)

Two Songs (Peter Schickele)

19. If Love is Real (2:50)
20. Introduction (1:42)
21. Cyndi (2:40)

22. Introduction (1;15)
Songs from Shakespeare (Peter Schickele)

23. Macbeth's Soliloquy (1:15)
24. Hamlet's Soliloquy (1:02)
25. The Three Witches from "Macbeth" (0:42)
26. Juliet's Soliloquy (0:55)
27. Funeral Oration from "Julius Caesar" (1:32)

28. Introduction (0:13)
29. Listen Here, Tyrannosaurus Rex (Peter Schickele) (1:55)

Technical Information

P.D.Q. Bach — The Jekyll & Hyde Tour was recorded live at Gordon Center in Owings Mills, Maryland, June 16, 2007

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