Format Details: Translucent Green Coloured Vinyl
Release Date: 06 November 2026
Label: Music On Vinyl
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8719262046085
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: The Soldier's Tale
Description
The 2018 album Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale is the adaptation by Roger Waters (co-founder of Pink Floyd) on the 1918 same-titled theatrical work. Waters recorded this version with members of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival at Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.
The original theatre work is one "to be read, played, and danced" by three actors (the soldier, the devil, and a narrator) and dancers, accompanied by a septet of instruments. The libretto relates the parable of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited economic gain. The music is scored for a septet of violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet or trumpet), trombone, and percussion. The libretto is adapted by Roger Waters from the translation by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black, based on the original text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramus.
The Soldier's Tale is available as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent green coloured vinyl and comes in a gatefold sleeve with linen laminate finish. The vinyl package includes a 4-page booklet with lyrics and pictures.
Tracklisting
The John Schroeder Orchestra
The Derek Trucks Band
Le 3eme Oeil
Arid
Neg' Marrons
The Byrds
Novos Baianos
Spirit
Christophe Chassol & Ensemble Miroirs Etendus
Adriano Sebastiani
Zhenni Li-Cohen, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien & Marin Alsop
Valere Burnon
Sayaka Shoji; Stephen Kovacevich; Franz Schubert Filharmonia
Saskia Giorgini
Reinoud Van Mechelen; Anna Besson; A Nocte Temporis
Quintetto Bernardini; Alfredo Bernardini; Cecilia Bernardini; Matthea de Muynck; Danka Nikolic; Mar
