A Little Nightmare Music

Infobox Album
Name = A Little Nightmare Music
Type = studio
Artist = P. D. Q. Bach


Released = 1983
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Label = Vanguard
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Last album = "Music You Can't Get Out Of Your Head" (1982)
This album = "A Little Nightmare Music" (1983)
Next album = "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 Salieri and Mozart). The album was released on Vanguard Records in 1983. The title refers to the Stephen Sondheim musical, A Little Night Music.

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

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

ource

* [http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqrec/nightmare.htm P.D.Q. Bach: A Little Nightmare Music]