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Patrick Wolf Interview

Patrick pops into the NME studio to discuss the inspiration behind his new album 'The Bachelor'.

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Just like Anna Russell before him, Peter Schickele is well-known for his parodies of classical music traditions. Though Schickele took the whole thing a step further by creating a whole musical personality, PDQ Bach,...

P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) - "New horizons in music appreciation" (Beethoven) (08:49)

This new upload is something unusual but nonetheless interesting. The selection concerns a performance of the very familiar Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven ... as if it were a sporting event complete with a...

PDQ Bach live (04:31)

PDQ Bach (Peter Schickele) live from his "Jekyll & Hyde Tour" earlier this year...the first new release in 12 years.

The music of PDQ Bach - Beethoven's 5th (08:47)

Classical music for your day. Some comedy this time from Peter Schickele... New Horizon's in Music Appreciation - 8'46" peformed by: PDQ Bach / Peter Schickele label: Vanguard Records

Itzhak Perlman and Peter Schickele, Part 1 (06:47)

Itzhak Perlman and Peter Schickele mix it up in a hilarious duet at a Boston Pops Concert with John Williams conducting. Part 1 is mostly the setup, with Peter Schickele expounding on the life of PDQ Bach, "the 21st...

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P.D.Q. Bach Biography

P. D. Q. Bach is a fictional composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a running gag that Schickele has used in a four-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family. He has recorded this music on the Vanguard and Telarc labels. Schickele's music combines parodies of musicological scholarship, the conventions of Baroque and classical music, and elements of slapstick comedy.

The name "P. D. Q." is a parody of the three-part names given to some members of the Bach family that are commonly reduced to initials, such as C. P. E., for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. PDQ is an initialism for "pretty damn quick" (or the bowdlerized "pretty darn quick") in vernacular English.

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P.D.Q. Bach's Best Songs

1. Minuet Militaire
2. Introduction
3. 1712 Overture
4. Bach Portrait
5. Prelude To Einstein on the Fritz
6. Echo Sonata For Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments
7. New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
8. New Horizons In Music Appreciation
9. Eine Kleine Nichtmusik
10. Capriccio La Pucelle de New Orleans (The Maid of New Orleans)

P.D.Q. Bach Discography

P.D.Q. Bach albums.

The Jekyll & Hyde Tour - 16/06/2007 (Telarc/US)
Music for an Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion (Turtle Mountain Naval Base Tactical Wind Ensemble feat. conductor: Peter Schickele) - (Telarc/US)
1712 Overture & Other Musical Assaults - (Telarc/US)
P.D.Q. Bach on the Air (I Virtuousi di Hoople feat. conductor: Peter Schickele, countertenor: John Ferrante) - (Vanguard Classics/US)
Black Forest Bluegrass - (Vanguard Records/US)
Portrait of P.D.Q. Bach - (Vanguard Records/US)
Peter Schickele Presents an Evening With P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)? - (Vanguard Records/US)