Image 
Tobias Picker: Awakenings
BMOP/sound
1094
Recording Release Date 
September 2023
SACD Recording 
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 55:25
Disc 2: 48:13
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project
  • Gil Rose, conductor

Based on the eponymous 1973 bestselling book by Dr. Oliver Sacks, Awakenings is a touching musical journey that draws both on source material and personal experience. Set primarily in a Bronx hospital from 1966 to the end of 1969, it tells the true story of the eminent neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, who received worldwide acclaim for bringing new hope to survivors of the “sleeping-sickness” epidemic of the 1920s.

 

Buy recording

CD price: 35.99

Track listing

Disc 1 
Audio icon Awakenings
Audio icon Act I, Scene 1: October 1966. A Hospital Dayroom
Audio icon Act I, Scene 2: Three years later, February 1969. Hospital Meeting Room
Audio icon Act I, Scene 3: March 1969
Audio icon Act I, Scene 4: Morning July 1969
Audio icon Act I, Scene 5: Sultry Evening. Early August 1969. Sacks’ Dining Room. Patients’ Rooms
Audio icon Act I, Scene 6: Early August 1969. New York Botanical Garden
Audio icon Act I, Scene 7: Later that afternoon. Dayroom
Disc 2 
Audio icon Act II, Scene 1: Evening August 26, 1969. Dayroom
Audio icon Act II, Scene 2: Leonard’s room, a week later. September 1969
Audio icon Act II, Scene 3: October 1969. Dayroom Afternoon. Rose’s Room Evening
Audio icon Act II, Scene 4: Administration Meeting Room. Sacks’ parents’ living room
Audio icon Act II, Scene 5: Morning December 1969. Dayroom
Audio icon Act II, Scene 6: Twilight December 1969. Dayroom
Download the album booklet