Life With an Idiot - Schnittke; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dale Duesing, Teresa Ringholz, Howard Haskin

Life With an Idiot

Live Album by Schnittke; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dale Duesing, Teresa Ringholz, Howard Haskin

Released 1992

classical opera

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CD 1
1
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Prologue. "Life with an idiot is full of surprises" (Chorus, I, Wife)
Alfred Schnittke
1:45
2
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "My friends congratulated me on my idiot" (I, Chorus, Wife)
Alfred Schnittke
1:47
3
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I had been full of doubts and anxieties that winter" (I, Chorus, Wife)
Alfred Schnittke
2:26
4
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Everybody laughed" (Chorus, Wife, I)
Alfred Schnittke
2:48
5
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I pictured to myself a crafty and staid wise old man" (I, Chorus)
Alfred Schnittke
1:43
6
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Well look what's happened - I've belched" (I, Wife, Chorus)
Alfred Schnittke
1:50
7
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "Sometimes I mix up my dead wives" (I, Wife, Chorus, Vova)
Alfred Schnittke
3:52
8
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. "I've swapped a birdie for a pizza!" (Chorus, I, Wife, Vova)
Alfred Schnittke
2:50
9
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 1. Tango (Intermezzo)
Alfred Schnittke
2:31
10
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "I said later that if I had gone" (Wife, I, Guard, Chorus)
Alfred Schnittke
6:27
11
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "Look: my former fellow students" (I, Chorus, Guard)
Alfred Schnittke
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
6:51
13
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. "Ekh!" (Vova, I, Chorus, Guard)
Alfred Schnittke
5:31
14
Life With an Idiot: Act I, Scene 2. Intermezzo (Wife, I, Vova)
Alfred Schnittke
1:35
CD 2
1
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "In the beginning Vova was very reserved" (I, Vova, Chorus)
Alfred Schnittke
5:45
2
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "In the evenings, to prevent Vova suffering from insomnia" (I, Chorus)
Alfred Schnittke
1:34
3
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Once, on returning home, I chanced upon the following scene" (I, Chorus, Vova)
Alfred Schnittke
1:37
4
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
3:24
5
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
2:11
6
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. "Ekh!" (Vova, Chorus, I, Wife)
Alfred Schnittke
4:31
7
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 1. Intermezzo
Alfred Schnittke
1:11
8
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Vova has cleaned up his act a lot" (Wife, I, Chorus, Vova, Marcel Proust)
Alfred Schnittke
5:49
9
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Don't offend him. Don't traumatise Vova" (Wife, I, Chorus)
Alfred Schnittke
1:53
10
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Life with an idiot is full of surprises!" (Wife, I, Chorus)
Alfred Schnittke
2:59
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
3:50
12
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Ekh!" (Vova, Chorus, I, Wife)
Alfred Schnittke
5:53
13
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Well, and now, cock-sucking reader, whoever you are" (I, Chorus, Vova)
Alfred Schnittke
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
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
2:47
16
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "We beat her up, beat her up!" (Chorus, Vova, I, Wife)
Alfred Schnittke
3:26
17
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "Suddenly, the wife declares: 'Vova! Either him...'" (Chorus, Wife, I, Vova)
Alfred Schnittke
4:26
18
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I love you. Love!" (Wife, Chorus, Marcel Proust, I, Vova)
Alfred Schnittke
2:26
19
Life With an Idiot: Act II, Scene 2. "I am Renoir" (Chorus, I)
Alfred Schnittke
1:56
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
7:01