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

Release: 1992 Germany, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD, Tracks: 34, Length: 1:53:30, Barcode: 074645249520
Release type: Album - Live

Contents

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

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