The Coast of Utopia: Music from the Trilogy CD

The Coast of Utopia - Music from the Trilogy
Original Music by Mark Bennett
Instrumental Recording

The exquisite music from Lincoln Center’s critically acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy of plays, The Coast of Utopia.

The trilogy consists of: Part One – Voyage, Part Two – Shipwreck, and Part Three – Salvage. “This ambitious trilogy about a group of politically radical 19th-Century Russian friends from landed families takes place between 1833 and 1868 and in several locales, with sudden chronological shifts and crisscrossing narrative threads. The music helps bridge the leaps and bounds in Mr. Stoppard’s epic.” (Anthony Tommasini, New York Times).

Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Brian F. O’Byrne and Martha Plimpton headed the cast of 44 in the trilogy, which ran from November of 2006 through May 2007.

In the words of the show’s director, Jack O’Brien, “Mark Bennet proves that he has no rivals in the world of theatre composition: the variety, the simplicity, the range of emotional support that he has given The Coast of Utopia is not just epic, it’s monumental. That is so perfectly brings our plays to their emotional boil is pure perfection. That the music, in this CD, stands alone is, in my estimation, a genuine miracle.”

TRACK LISTING

Voyage
1) Trilogy Prologue/500 Souls
2) Michael Comes Home
3) March Here, March There
4) Spring at Premukhino
5) Nothing But Self
6) A Greater Man Than Michael
7) Serfs at Sunset
8) The Bonfire
9) Liubov’s Procession
10) Twelve Days To Catch Up
11) Moscow
12) After The Soirée
13) The Telescope
14) The Telescope II
15) Belinsky At Work
16) Riverboat Farewell
17) Ginger Cat Waltz
18) Voyage Finale


Shipwreck
19) Birch Trees
20) Sokolovo To Salzbrunn
21) Paris
22) The Revolution, “La Marseillaise”
23) The Failed Uprising, “La Marseillaise II”
24) Michael Captured
25) Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe
26) Nice: “Lu Ciuccio De Cola”
27) “Bella Nice, Che d’Amore”
28) “I Lamenti Di Una Bella Fanciulla”
29) Return To Sokolovo
30) Shipwreck Finale


Salvage
31) Olga Asleep
32) Herzen In England
33) Like A Dream
34) Blackgang Chine And Beach Visitors
35) Farewell To England
36) Geneva
37) Trilogy Finale, The Ninth Wave
38) Curtain Call