Three Sisters
music for the film
General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings
Composition:
1969
Film First Shown:
Wednesday, 26 August 1970. Sala Volpi, Venice.
Film Personnel:
Director: Sir Laurence Olivier
Producer: John Goldstone
Screenplay: From the play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Moura Buidberg
Cast: Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Derek Jacobi, Alan Bates,
Jeanne Watts, Ronald Pickup
Musicians: Marc Wilkinson conductor
Studio: Shepperton Studios
Craggs Catalogue Number:
C83
3 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 4 percussion (side drum, bass drum, cymbal, suspended cymbal, bells, glockenspiel, tabor di basso, triangle, tambourine) – celesta – piano – harp – strings
The private collection of British Lion Films Ltd. Autograph full score.
This music was never published.
Suite for Orchestra, arranged by Christopher Palmer, 1990
Apart from the film, this music has only been recorded in the arrangement listed above.