Schnittke: Gogol Suite (Rozhdestvensky)

Alfred Schnittke: Gogol Suite, based on incidental music to Yuri Lubimov's play "The Census List" after stories by Nikolai Gogol* (1975, suite compiled by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, 1980)

0:00 - 1. Overture
1:15 - 2. Chichikov's Childhood
3:36 - 3. The Portrait
10:35 - 4. The Overcoat
12:50 - 5. Ferdinand VIII
14:09 - 6. The Bureaucrats
16:38 - 7. The Ball
23:11 - 8. The Testimony

USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Recording Producer [and Engineer?]: Igor Veprinitsev
Recorded live from the Moscow Conservatory Hall, 15 April 1982
Melodiya

"The Census List" was an amalgam of Gogol's stories created by Yuri Lubimov. Although most sources name the play in with this title, others also name it as "The Dead Souls Register", or "The Inspector's Tale", which is a specific story by Gogol. Additionally, and more confusingly, Schnittke later wrote a soundtrack for a television series after Gogol's story "Dead Souls", out of which Rozhdestvensky fashioned yet another suite.