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Life With an Idiot

Mstislav Rostropovich · Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Sony Classical1992Cat. S2K 52 4951h 53m34 tracks
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Life With an Idiot (1992), CD, on Sony Classical. Music by Alfred Schnittke, performed by Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; 34 tracks.

Composer

Alfred Schnittke

Tracklist

Disc 1

01

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Prologue. "Life with an idiot is full of surprises" (Chorus, I, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:45
02

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "My friends congratulated me on my idiot" (I, Chorus, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:48
03

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I had been full of doubts and anxieties that winter" (I, Chorus, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:26
04

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Everybody laughed" (Chorus, Wife, I)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:49
05

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I pictured to myself a crafty and staid wise old man" (I, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:43
06

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Well look what's happened - I've belched" (I, Wife, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:51
07

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Sometimes I mix up my dead wives" (I, Wife, Chorus, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

3:52
08

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I've swapped a birdie for a pizza!" (Chorus, I, Wife, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:50
09

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. Tango (Intermezzo)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:32
10

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "I said later that if I had gone" (Wife, I, Guard, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

6:28
11

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "Look: my former fellow students" (I, Chorus, Guard)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

3:12
12

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "I got down to searching for the holy simpleton" (I, Lad, Guard, Chorus, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

6:51
13

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "Ekh!" (Vova, I, Chorus, Guard)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

5:31
14

Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. Intermezzo (Wife, I, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act I

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:35

Disc 2

01

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "In the beginning Vova was very reserved" (I, Vova, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

5:45
02

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "In the evenings, to prevent Vova suffering from insomnia" (I, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:35
03

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Once, on returning home, I chanced upon the following scene" (I, Chorus, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:38
04

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "A few days later Vova started tearing up the books" (I, Wife, Vova, Marcel Proust, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

3:25
05

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Suddenly, one fine day, he dumped a whole pile in the middle of the room" (I, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:11
06

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Ekh!" (Vova, Chorus, I, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

4:31
07

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. Intermezzo

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:12
08

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Vova has cleaned up his act a lot" (Wife, I, Chorus, Vova, Marcel Proust)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

5:49
09

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Don't offend him. Don't traumatise Vova" (Wife, I, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:54
10

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Life with an idiot is full of surprises!" (Wife, I, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

3:00
11

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I was intrigued as to which proclivities of Vova my wife bent over backwards to meet" (I, Wife, Chorus)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

3:50
12

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Ekh!" (Vova, Chorus, I, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

5:54
13

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Well, and now, cock-sucking reader, whoever you are" (I, Chorus, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

3:11
14

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "They made their home in the second room" (Marcel Proust, Wife, I, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:17
15

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "He had a brand-new and perfectly tolerable wife" (Wife, Marcel Proust, I, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:47
16

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "We beat her up, beat her up!" (Chorus, Vova, I, Wife)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

3:26
17

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Suddenly, the wife declares: 'Vova! Either him...'" (Chorus, Wife, I, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

4:26
18

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I love you. Love!" (Wife, Chorus, Marcel Proust, I, Vova)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

2:26
19

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I am Renoir" (Chorus, I)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

1:57
20

Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "The guard greeted me like I was one of the family" (I, Vova, Chorus, Wife, Marcel Proust)

Alfred Schnittke - Life With an Idiot: Act II

Mstislav Rostropovich, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

7:01

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