SEMIBEGUN 020: EVERYTHING NEW IS OLD AGAIN

 

Air Date: August 2, 2023

The renewed interest in and popularity of early music of the 1960s yielded recordings featuring unconventional--experimental, even--interpretations and arrangements of canon heavy weights. The success of Wendy Carlos' moog arrangements on Switched-on Bach and the parodic hijinks of Peter Schickele's PDQ Bach demonstrate this trend. Quoting Bach tunes and sampling Gregorian chants is still in heavy rotation (don't we all do it?), so celebrate the upcoming 20th episode of Semibegun with a fun mix of wacky classics from "The Baroque Beatles Book" to Mozart performed on vegetables to club remixes of Hildegard von Bingen!

TRACKS

  1. Pom Poko – Sonatina; (2022)
    J.S. Bach – Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus Tragicus), BWV 106

  2. The Swingle Singers – Sinfonia; (1963)
    J.S. Bach – Partita No.2 in C Minor, BWV 826

  3. Swingle Singers – Gavotte; (1968)
    J.S. Bach – Partita No.3 in E Major, BWV 1006

  4. André Bénichou – Prelude In E Minor; (1965)
    J.S. Bach – Sechs Kleine Präludien - No. 6, BWV 938

  5. André Bénichou – Bourrée; (1965)
    J.S. Bach – Suite In E Minor For Lute, BWV 996

  6. Wendy Carlos – Two-Part Invention in F Major; (1968)
    J.S. Bach – Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779

  7. Wendy Carlos – Prelude and Fugue #2 in C Minor; (1968)
    J.S. Bach – Prelude & Fugue in C minor, BWV 847

  8. Apollo 100 – Joy; (1971)
    J.S. Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

  9. The Toys – A Lover's Concerto; (1965)
    Christian Petzold – Minuet in G Major from J.S. Bach’s Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV Anh. 114

  10. Joshua Rifkin – The Baroque Beatles Book; (1965)
    Recitative 'In They Came Jorking'
    Aria 'When I Was Younger' (Help!)
    Grave - Allegro - Grave (Eight Days a Week)

  11. P.D.Q Bach – Cantata Blaues Gras (The Bluegrass Cantata); (1979)
    Recitative and Aria: “Blaues Gras”

  12. The Long Island Vegetable Orchestra perform Allegro from Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik; (2018)

  13. The Swingle Singers – Bon jour, mon coeur; (1974)
    Orlande de Lassus – Bonjour mon coeur, LV 167

  14. The Swingle Singers – Revecy venir du printemps; (1974)
    Claude Le Jeune – Revecy venir du Printans

  15. Hildegard von Blingin’ – Jolene (Bardcore); (2020)
    Dolly Parton – Jolene

  16. Richard Souther – Vision (O Euchari In Leta Via); (1994)
    Hildegard von Bingen – O Euchari In Leta Via

  17. Goh Hotoda – Vision (Club Remix); (1994)