The Intimate P. D. Q. Bach is "a live recording of The Intimate P.D.Q. Bach stage show, featuring Professor Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...

 and the Semi-Pro Musica Antiqua" and was released on Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

 in 1973. Many of the performer credits are humorous, and as with all P.D.Q. Bach recordings, the "S" numbers are fictitious and humorous.

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, "beriberitone", calliope, siren (Quaint Old Innkeeper, Hansel Hunter, Monk, Doctor)
• John Ferrante, "bargain counter tenor", harpsichord, razzer (Gretel Red Riding Hood, Village Idiot, Teddy Nice)
• David Oei
  David Oei
  David Oei is a classical pianist .Oei was born in Hong Kong, into a family that had emigrated from Amoy , Fujian in 1934 to open a branch of The China & South Sea Bank founded by his great grandfather Oei Ik-Tjoe...
  
  , piano, police whistle
• John Nelson, "singist"
• Peter Rosenfeld, celloist
• Arthur Weisberg, "bassooner"

Track listing

1. Spoken introduction

Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, an opera in one unnatural act, S. 2ⁿ-1

Mersenne prime

In mathematics, a Mersenne number, named after Marin Mersenne , is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two: M_p=2^p-1.\,...

 (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Overture
• Aria: "I am a quaint old innkeeper"
• Aria: "Like a lonely pilgrim"
• Aria: "My name is Hansel Hunter"
• Aria: "I'm the village idiot"
• Aria: "Et expecto"
• Aria: "There's something about a monk"
• Duet: "Do you love me?"
• Interlude: Medical examination
• Aria: "I hope you'll take this friendly advice"
• Aria: "Teddy Nice is my name"
• Duet: "Jump not to conclusions"
• Finale: "Just tell me what your name is"

2. The O.K. Chorale from the "Toot" Suite for calliope four hands, S. 212°

Boiling point

The boiling point of an element or a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the environmental pressure surrounding the liquid....

 (P.D.Q. Bach)

3. Spoken introduction

"Erotica" Variations, for banned instruments and piano, S. 36EE (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Theme: Windbreaker
• Variation I: Balloons
• Variation II: Slide Whistle
• Variation III: Slide Windbreaker
• Variation IV: Lasso D'Amore
• Variation V: Foghorn, Bell, Kazoo, Gargle

4. Spoken introduction

The Art of the Ground Round, for three baritones and discontinuo, S. 1.19/lb (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Loving is as easy
• Please, kind sir
• Jane, my Jane
• Golly golly oh
• Nelly is a nice girl

Source

• The Intimate P.D.Q. Bach
• The Intimate P.D.Q. Bach, Vanguard VSD 79335 (1973)