Performers:

Track Listing:

[1]  Aria:  “What sweet music” (Salieri)

[2]  Aria:  “Nature gave us eyes” (Schläfer)

[3]  Duet:  “Uh Oh”

[4]  Finale:  “What hutzpah!”

[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

Audio Samples

Listen to P.D.Q. Bach:  A Little Nightmare Music:  The Hearer’s Digest Condensed Version.  This Condensed Version gives you the intangible essence of the original recording in one small, easy-to-swallow capsule summary. The hyper folks at Hearer’s Digest have created this sample by slicing, dicing, and splicing, until it somewhat resembles excerpts of the original recording that are “severely truncated, but shorter.”

This Hearer’s Digest Condensed Version is made of excerpts from the following:  “What sweet music”;  “Nature gave us eyes”;  “Uh Oh”; and “What hutzpah!” from A Little Nightmare Music—Vite, tout de suite;  Minuet et, tout à l’heure, trio;  Lent, tout au moins;  Chanson: “Toute l’année, hey, hey hey”;  and Tout à coup le bout from Octoot—Long–Neat–Long;  Sarabande straight up;  Minuet with a twist;  and One for the road from Royal Firewater Musick.

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