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1992 studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion
Released 1992 Recorded November 17, 1990 April 17, 1992 June 30, 1992
Genre
Classical
Comedy Length 52 :52
Label
Telarc
Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion was released in 1992 by Telarc Records. The album contains one piece by Professor
Peter Schickele writing under his own name and several pieces by him as
P. D. Q. Bach .
This album won the
Grammy Award for best comedy album in 1992. The runners-up were Naked Beneath My Clothes (
Rita Rudner ), Jonathan Winters is Terminator 3 (
Jonathan Winters ), An Evening with George Burns (
George Burns ) and
Off the Deep End (
"Weird Al" Yankovic ).
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Track listing
Introduction (1:22)
Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion , S. 1000
Grand Entrance (1:41)
Simply Grand Minuet (2:51)
Romance in the Grand Manner (2:37)
Rondo Mucho Grando (4:04, including the Crasho Grosso at the beginning of the movement and created by dropping a lot of percussion equipment)
Introduction (1:04)
"Dutch" Suite in G Major, S. -16
Mr. Minuit's Minuet (2:37)
Panther Dance (2:46)
Dance of the Grand Dams (2:49)
The Lowland Fling (2:13)
Introduction (0:54)
Six Contrary Dances, S. 39
Maestoso animoso (2:37)
Daintissimo (1:28)
Allegro, but not too mucho (2:15)
Molto moderato (2:06)
Vivace cucarace (0:44)
Moving right alongo (1:10)
Introduction (0:56)
Lip My Reeds, S. 32' (4:31)
Door Prize Scene: Fanfare for Fred, S. F4F (2:20)
Introduction (0:48)
March of the Cute Little Wood Sprites, S. Onesy Twosy (3:51)
Introduction (0:50)
Last Tango in Bayreuth (Schickele) (2:42)
Closing (0:32)
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