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Shostakovich: Jazz & Ballet Suites, Film Music
Shostakovich: Jazz & Ballet Suites, Film Music
Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Artist
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Theodore Kuchar conductor
Format
3 CD
Cat. number
6735
EAN code
5029365673525
Release
April 2006
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About this release
After releasing the highly successful sets of Shostakovich symphonies (the award-winning cycle of Rudolf Barshai) and the string quartets ( highly acclaimed performances of the Rubio Quartet), this set presents the Jazz Suites, Ballet Suites and Film Music.
Shostakovich lived a live full of tension and controverses in the Stalin era. As a modernist he was reprimanded and threatened to be banned. As a sign of good behaviour, he wrote music for mass audiences, in a popular style. But Shostakovich being Shostakovich, he managed to suggest under the surface of the sometimes nearly vulgar music his unique sense of bitter irony and revolt.
The Jazz suites enjoy a huge popularity. The 'Second Waltz' from the first Suite gained world reputation through the arrangement of Andre Rieu. The film music for the Gadfly is famous for its Romance, which was used in a popular television series.
Excellent, idiomatic performances by the Ukrainian Orchestra under Theodore Kuchar.
Track list
Disk 1
1 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): March
2 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): Dance No. 1
3 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): Dance No. 2
4 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): Little Polka
5 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): Lyric Waltz
6 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): Waltz No. 1
7 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): Waltz No. 2
8 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, (Jazz Suite No. 2): Finale
9 Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Themes, Op. 115
10 Jazz Suite No. 1: Waltz
11 Jazz Suite No. 1: Polka
12 Jazz Suite No. 1: Foxtrot
13 Novorossijsk Chimes
14 Festive Overture, Op. 96
Disk 2
1 The Bolt, Ballet Suite, Op. 27a: Overture
2 The Bolt, Ballet Suite, Op. 27a: Polka
3 The Bolt, Ballet Suite, Op. 27a: Variation
4 The Bolt, Ballet Suite, Op. 27a: Tango
5 The Bolt, Ballet Suite, Op. 27a: Intermezzo
6 The Bolt, Ballet Suite, Op. 27a: Finale
7 The Limpid Stream, Ballet Suite, Op. 39a: Waltz
8 The Limpid Stream, Ballet Suite, Op. 39a: Russian Lubok
9 The Limpid Stream, Ballet Suite, Op. 39a: Galop
10 The Limpid Stream, Ballet Suite, Op. 39a: Adagio
11 The Limpid Stream, Ballet Suite, Op. 39a: Pizzicato
12 The Golden Age, Ballet Suite, Op. 22a: Overture
13 The Golden Age, Ballet Suite, Op. 22a: Adagio
14 The Golden Age, Ballet Suite, Op. 22a: Polka
15 The Golden Age, Ballet Suite, Op. 22a: Dance
Disk 3
1 Hamlet Suite: Prelude
2 Hamlet Suite: The Ball at the Palace
3 Hamlet Suite: The Ghost
4 Hamlet Suite: In the Garden
5 Hamlet Suite: Hamlet & Ophelia
6 Hamlet Suite: Arrival of the Actors
7 Hamlet Suite: Poisoning Scene
8 Hamlet Suite: Duel and Death of Hamlet
9 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Overture
10 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Contradance
11 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Folk Feast
12 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Interlude
13 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Waltz "Barrel Organ"
14 Gadfly, Suite Op. 97a: Galop
15 Gadfly, Suite Op. 97a: Introduction
16 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Romance
17 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Intermezzo
18 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Nocturne
19 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Scene
20 Gadfly, Suite, Op. 97a: Finale