Capote: The Album [RCA]

Personnel: Eve Egoyan (piano).Audio Mixer: Jennifer Dunnington.Recording information: Glenn Gould Theatre, CBC Toronto.Photographers: Richard Corman; Attila Dory.Reader: Truman Capote.Although this is a tie-in release with the 2005 movie Capote, it's not exactly a soundtrack, or a Truman Capote album. It's something between the two, mixing Truman Capote recitations with incidental music from the film score. Most of the quite lengthy (76-minute) CD is devoted to excerpts from the 1966 album Truman Capote Reads Scenes from 'In Cold Blood': A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. Although the title might seem self-explanatory, for those who've seen the movie it's worth emphasizing that the spoken word passages from Capote's book In Cold Blood are not read here by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the actor who played the writer in the film. They're read by Capote himself, and even if you're well acquainted with his life, it still comes as somewhat of a shock to hear such a middle