Tracklist

Act 1 Prologue
1.1	Life With An Idiot Is Full Of Surprises	1:45
Scene 1
1.2	My Friends Congratulated Me With My Idiot	1:47
1.3	I Had Been Full Of Doubts And Anxieties That Winter	2:26
1.4	Everybody Laughed	2:48
1.5	I Pictured To Myself A Crafty And Staid Wise Old Man	1:43
1.6	Well Look What's Happened - I've Belched	1:50
1.7	Sometimes I Mix Up My Dead Wives	3:52
1.8	I've Swapped A Birdie For A Pizza !	2:50
1.9	Tango (Intermezzo)	2:31
Scene 2
1.10	I Said Later That If I Had Gone	6:27
1.11	Look: My Former Fellow Students	3:12
1.12	I Got Down To Searching For The Holy Simpleton	6:51
1.13	Ekh !	5:31
1.14	Intermezzo	1:35
Act 2 Scene 1
2.1	In The Beginning Vova Was Very Reserved	5:45
2,2	In The Evenings, To Prevent Vova Suffering From Insomnia	1:34
2,3	Once, On Returning Home, I Chanced Upon The Following Scene	1:37
2.4	A Few Days Later Vova Started Tearing Up The Books	3:24
2.5	Suddenly, One Fine Day, He Dumped A Whole Pile In The Middle Of The Room	2:11
2.6	Ekh !	4:31
2.7	Intermezzo	1:11
Scene 2
2.8	Vova Has Cleaned Up His Act A Lot	5:49
2.9	Don't Offend Him. Don't Traumatise Vova	1:53
2.10	Life With An Idiot Is Full Of Surprises	2:59
2.11	I Was Intrigued As To Which Proclivities Of Vova My Wife Bent Over Backwards To Meet	3:50
2.12	Ekh !	5:53
2.13	Well, And Now, Cock-sucking Reader, Whoever You Are	3:11
2.14	They Made Their Home In The Second Room	2:17
2.15	He Had A Brand-new And Perfectly Tolerable Wife	2:47
2.16	We Beat Her Up, Beat Her Up !	3:26
2.17	Suddenly, The Wife Declares: 'Vova ! Either Him...	4:26
2.18	I Love You, Love !	2:26
2.19	I Am Renoir	1:56
2.20	The Guard Greeted Me Like I Was One Of The Family	7:02

Credits

• Alto Vocals [Vocal Ensemble] – Caren Van Oijen, Corinne Romijn, Inez Hafkamp, Marjan Boonen, Sussan Djanbakhsch
• Baritone Vocals [I] – Dale Duesing, Romain Bischoff
• Baritone Vocals [Proust] – Robin Leggate
• Bass Vocals [Guard] – Leonid Zimnenko
• Bass Vocals [Vocal Ensemble] – Edwin Van Gelder , Hans Christoph Begemann, Mitchell Sandler, Nigel Cliffe, René Steur, Romain Bischoff
• Chorus Master – Winfried Maczewski
• Composed By – Schnittke*
• Conductor, Piano, Cello – Mstislav Rostropovich
• Engineer – Marcus Herzog
• Libretto By – Victor Jerofejev
• Liner Notes – Jürgen Köchel
• Liner Notes [Transl. To English] – Andrew Reynolds
• Liner Notes [Transl. To Italian] – Enrica Mottley
• Orchestra – Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra*
• Photography [Schnittke] – Ewa Rudling
• Photography [Stage] – Jaap Pieper
• Producer – Andreas Neubronner
• Soprano Vocals [Vocal Ensemble] – Fang Fang Kong, Joanna Albrzykowska, Julia Bronkhorst, Manon Heijne, Priti Coles, Sylvia Leentvaar
• Soprano Vocals [Wife] – Teresa Ringholz
• Tenor Vocals [Vocal Ensemble] – Frank Van Aken, Jon Thorsteinsson, Joseph Pettit, Kenneth Beare, Rein Kolpa
• Tenor Vocals [Vova] – Howard Haskin

Notes

Sung in Russian.
Enclosed is a booklet (167 pages) with notes and lyrics in English, French, German, Russian and Italian.
A live recording of the world premiere at Het Muziektheater, the Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 16-26, 1992.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 5 099705 249529

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
S2K 52 495	Schnittke*, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra*, Mstislav Rostropovich	Schnittke*, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra*, Mstislav Rostropovich - Life With An Idiot ‎(2xCD, Album + Box)	Sony Classical	S2K 52 495	US	1992