Liebeslieder Polkas is recording of the music of 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...

 under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a gag that Schickele has developed over a five-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family...

,. It describes itself as "the first opus of P.D.Q. Bach to be discovered in which he inflicted his music on the work of well-known poets, or even known poets, for that matter" and includes "the ambitious zodiac song cycle, the Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs." The album 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 1980.

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, basso blotto, piano (fifth hand)
• The Swarthmore College Chorus, Peter Gram Swing, conductor
• John Ferrante, bargain counter tenor
• 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, calliope, harpsichord, push-button chord organ
• Anne Epperson, piano

Track listing

Liebeslieder Polkas for Mixed Chorus and Piano Five Hands, S. 2/4 (P.D.Q. Bach)

1. To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell)

2. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Robert Herrick)

3. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Christopher Marlowe)

4. Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? (Sir John Suckling)

5. It Was a Lover and His Lass (William Shakespeare)

6. The Constant Lover (Sir John Suckling)

7. Song to Celia (Ben Johnson, adapted by P.D.Q. Bach)

8. Interlude (piano alone)

9. Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor (John Dryden)

10. Who is Sylvia? (William Shakespeare)

Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs (Aire Proprio Zodicale), S. 16° (P.D.Q. Bach)

11. Gemini ("Now Diddle had a twin")

12. Cancer ("Henry the Crab")

13. Leo ("Now Leo the Lion")

14. Virgo ("Virginia, fairest Virginia")

15. Libra ("Scales are very handy")

16. Scorpio ("When the Lord was handing weapons out")

17. Sagittarius ("Come all ye lads and lasses")

18. Capricorn ("When William the Conqueror was a child")

19. Aquarius ("Water bearer")

20. Pisces ("O holy mackerel")

21. Aries ("Once there was a sheep")

22. Taurus ("Can you lend me twenty quid?")

Source

• P.D.Q. Bach: Liebeslieder Polkas