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Title: Hilarious!
Review: This is my favorite P.D.Q. Bach recording. "Iphigenia in Brooklyn" is not only very funny; it's also very clever. I don't sense the same cleverness in more recent P.D.Q. Bach recordings; Peter Schickele seems to have run out of gas. Back when this was made, though, he was at the top of his art. What's funny about "Iphigenia," like any good parody, is how it's done with a straight face. John Ferrante is perfect as the "bargain counter tenor," forced to sing within a ridiculous range while double reeds (sans instruments) intone lugubriously around him. The whole thing smacks of Handel's more serious choral works, turned to utter silliness.
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