This piece consists of an Aria, a Recitative, a Ground, another Recitative, and another Aria. I can truly say that the Ground ("Dying, and yet in death alive") is one of my favorite pieces of music. Not just the cello or the singing, but also the double reeds - Schickele notes that many composers wrote for double reeds, but only PDQ Bach wrote for double reeds without using an oboe or bassoon.... - Ontario Emperor

For once, I'm actually listening to music from CDs that I own, rather than just streaming from last.fm randomly. This is from "The Wurst of PDQ Bach," which also includes the oratorio "The Seasonings" ("Bide thy thyme" et al), and the excellent New Horizons in Music Appreciation, a play by play of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. - Ontario Emperor

And if V sees this, yes it's a Vanguard album. - Ontario Emperor

pdq++ - Aloof Schipperke

I believe that's the one that features the BargainCounterTenor. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm... "When PDQ Bach started doing public concerts in 1965, I got together with Russell Oberlin but he was just starting a year off that turned out to be his retirement. I'm sorry that I never got to work with him, but on the other hand it led to my finding John Ferrante, another countertenor with a woderful robust sound, with whom I worked for a couple of decades and more. (John Ferrante sang the Don Octave character in P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest, and many more of P.D.Q.'s works for Bargain Counter Tenor) - Ontario Emperor

Just scrobbled May 28 2009. - John E. Bredehoft