An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall

An Hysteric Return: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall is live recording of a P. D. Q. Bach concert in Carnegie Hall and was released on Vanguard Records in 1966.

Performers

 * Professor Peter Schickele, bicycle, windbreaker, tromboon
 * The Royal P.D.Q. Bach Festival Orchestra, Jorge Mester, conductor
 * Lorna Haywood, soprano
 * Marlena Kleinman, alto
 * John Ferrante, tenor
 * William Woolf, bass
 * The Okay Chorale, John Nelson, director
 * Maurice Eisenstadt, bagpipes
 * Robert Lewis, balloons

Track listing
1. Oratorio — The Seasonings, S. 1½ tsp. (P. D. Q. Bach) 2. "Unbegun" Symphony, (Prof. Schickele) 3. Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S. 66 (P. D. Q. Bach)
 * Chorus: "Tarragon of virtue is full"
 * Recitative: "And there were in the same country"
 * Duet: "Bide thy thyme"
 * Fugue
 * Recitative: "Then asked he"
 * Chorale: "By the leeks of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept"
 * Aria: "Open sesame seeds"
 * Recitative: "So saying"
 * Duet: "Summer is a cumin seed"
 * Chorus with soloists: "To curry favor, favor curry"
 * III. Minuet
 * IV. Andante — Allegro
 * Allegro moulto
 * Romanze II (Adagio Sireno)
 * Minaret and Trio
 * Romanze I (Chi Largo)
 * Presto Changio