Terrific… PDQ and his best…..many thanks to Prof Scheikle for discovering this outstanding piece…

I found this at The Exchange here in the US. My gf and I were browsing the $1 classical records and I saw this and was like "Yes, I bet this is good." Spun it while preparing dinner. Was not disappointed.

"You can't have my little red wagon" motif is priceless!

These lyrics are better than every modern country song.

I listened to this while stationed in Germany from 1979 to 1981. I loved it.

Using that motif from the fifth Brandenburg Concerto is ingenious

@debs4mysweetbaby

3 жыл бұрын

yes!! he also used the third brandenburg at the end!! 14.45 :)

@debs4mysweetbaby

3 жыл бұрын

and i just realized he also referred to the double recorder motif from the fourth brandenburg as well :)

this is wonderful! lol! i love how he throws the brandenburg concertos 3, 4 and 5 in!! :)

Ausgezeichnet! Lache ich immer. Ich hab' alles genoßen! Vielen Dank!

has anyone else noticed that the opening choral passage at 13.30, to "ich gehe am kruppel bach hinauf" are the same notes as "oh my darlin clementine"??? lol :)

@UrbsDei21

2 жыл бұрын

You're right!

I had this on cassette tape back when Sony Walkman was a thing.

Props for telling me how to say "May we never meet again!" in German. It's come in handy more times than you'd think....

Hysterical.

"Du du du dooby dooby du" oh dear!

15:52 is SO brilliant! Thank you. This piece always cracks me up (I own the original LP!) especially the use of harmonica in the recitatives. Pure genius.

@Jy3pr6

6 жыл бұрын

bassbonebobf The last track is my favorite too. It's so funny! Where can I find this in hard copy?

Hey! Once you get done laughing, the banjo really does fit into the Baroque sonority pretty well, doesn't it?

@ewestner

3 жыл бұрын

Not much difference between that and a theorbo, TBH.

@UrbsDei21

2 жыл бұрын

It makes me think of a particularly exuberant harpsichord.

@davidwright8432

5 ай бұрын

Zat vass ze long-lost chenius of PDQ Bach.

Beautiful.

A classic!

Brilliant!

The inside joke that composers can't sing is priceless!

MANY thanks for the translation! However, (eight years later...) could you change the color of either the background or the (English) subtitles?? This color combination is practically impossible to decipher and read.

I love it! 👍👍😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏

"Ach, ja!"

1:25

How do you say YEE-HAW in German?

@Tetsugakusha75

4 жыл бұрын

JU-HUUUUU!!!

And then, there is the horse gait rhythm

That has to be Alison Brown on banjo......

@pt2zke

6 жыл бұрын

Bill Keith on banjo. Eric Weissberg on mandolin.

All in all, a delightful piece of music. Pity that the end-"r" in "grüner Himmel" isn't properly enunciated all the time. That makes it a plural (green skies or green heavens). "Confused" in this context should not be translated by "vermischt", sondern "verwirrt". Caption "abreisen" is wrong. That word means "to part on a journey" and not "tear it down". The correct caption should be "abreißen" or "abreissen". Luckily, the singer pronounces it correctly - yes, there is a difference!

@notthatyouasked6656

3 жыл бұрын

One could argue that "grüne Himmel" as a plural is correct though, since the opening line is a reference to the old song "Blue Skies", i.e., "Blue Skies shining on me, Nothing but blue skies do I see".

@penelopegoldberry8305

3 жыл бұрын

@@notthatyouasked6656 Thank you for your clarification. You are right, but then the captions are wrong. "Grüner Himmel" is the singular. The problem is, that there are no two words for "Himmel" in German. The plural is not used much any more in modern German, so the translator (Google?) probably missed it. However, P.D.Q. Bach, as a composer of the baroque aera might have used it. I know, my language is complicated...

@notthatyouasked6656

3 жыл бұрын

@@penelopegoldberry8305 Thanks for your comment. "Skies" as a plural isn't really used much in English either. About the only time you would hear it that way is in a weather forecast, something like, "We expect clear skies the next few days".

@penelopegoldberry8305

3 жыл бұрын

@@notthatyouasked6656 Well, "Himmel" used as a plural in German would conjure up the old picture of several layers of heavens around the earth. (A baroque composer or librettist could - of course - use it. Famous example: "Die Himmel erzählen..." by Haydn) Maybe that's why the translator shied away from it.

@weirdbeard2244

9 ай бұрын

OP here. I have no idea how much of this is grammatical. The German come completely from my copy of the score.

Two heights of christian western civilization combined. I approve.

Very funny, but the pronunciation of German is very bad....

@dnuma5852

Жыл бұрын

only adds to the humor

@Klaudiusian

Жыл бұрын

Ganz absichtlich. Die haben das extra getan, zum Spass

@garydmcgath

5 ай бұрын

Peter Schickele (RIP) has a strong American accent in the cantata, but I wouldn't say his pronunciation is bad. Just learned of his death today and came back to this.

@richardmontag3522

5 ай бұрын

Probably part of the joke.

@markjaws1

4 ай бұрын

His accent compared to typical American mangling of German. But then again, Germans don't exactly lose their accents when they sprechen English.