We were afraid of that. Minion is playing PDQ Bach 1712 Oveture. Like other PDQ Bach music, the score was found in a bin not far from one of New York’s lesser schools of music. As was PDQ’s tradition, liberal sampling (plagiarism) is present in the score and baroque musical idioms are abused ad nauseam!
Playing and recording are first rate. Somehow PDQ managed to attract the City’s finest starving musicians to play and to land a recording contract with drab classical label Telarc! #music
https://songwhip.com/peter-schickele/1712-overture-s-1712
No doubt, astute readers noticed the work’s catalog number S. 1712! Professor Peter Schickele, discoverer of the PDQ Bach oeuvre, administers the catalog. He’s also PDQ’s posthumous promoter arranging these performances and recordings.
This is a fun #recording Telarc’s PDQ Bach 1712 Oveture. Prof Schickele (actual composer) put together 40 minutes of classical mashups. You’ll hear things you’ve heard before in a new way. Players make it through all the foolishness with polish and a sense of humor.
Telarc got it all down on disk with a good sense of space and dynamics.