{"id":1875,"date":"2016-10-28T00:38:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T00:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/altocd.com\/northernflowers\/?p=468"},"modified":"2024-01-23T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:57:02","slug":"nfpma9905","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/altocd.com\/northernflowers\/product\/nfpma9905\/","title":{"rendered":"Dmitry Shostakovich, Music for Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cHamlet\u201d, music to Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy (1932), Op.32a \u2014<\/strong> excepts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nIntroduction and Night Watch<\/td>\n\n

2.35<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2.<\/td>\nA Flourish and Dance Music<\/td>\n\n

2.10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

3.<\/td>\nChase<\/td>\n\n

1.42<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

4.<\/td>\nActors\u2019 Pantomime<\/td>\n\n

1.39<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

5.<\/td>\nOphelia\u2019s song<\/td>\n\n

1.43<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

6.<\/td>\nA Lullaby<\/td>\n\n

1.23<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

7.<\/td>\nRequiem<\/td>\n\n

1.46<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

8.<\/td>\nFortinbras\u2019s Match<\/td>\n\n

2.10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u201cHuman Comedy\u201d, music to the production of H.\u00a0Balzac\u2019s play (1934),
\nOp.\u00a037a \u2014 <\/strong>excepts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\nView of Paris<\/td>\n\n

2.25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

10.<\/td>\nPolice Office<\/td>\n\n

1.20<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

11.<\/td>\nGavotte<\/td>\n\n

2.15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

12.<\/td>\nBank of the Seine<\/td>\n\n

3.45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

13.<\/td>\nMarch<\/td>\n\n

2.05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u201cKing Lear\u201d, music to Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy (1941), Op.58a \u2014 <\/strong>excepts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.<\/td>\nReturn from the Chase<\/td>\n\n

0.48<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

15.<\/td>\nAt the Hut<\/td>\n\n

2.00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

16.<\/td>\nIn Regan\u2019s Castle<\/td>\n\n

1.13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

17.<\/td>\nThe Camp<\/td>\n\n

1.20<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

18.<\/td>\nMarch<\/td>\n\n

1.32<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

19.<\/td>\nTrumpets<\/td>\n\n

1.17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

20.<\/td>\nCordelia\u2019s Ballad<\/td>\n\n

4.35<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nina Romanova, <\/strong>mezzo-soprano (20)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St.\u00a0Petersburg Chamber Orchestra<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edward Serov,<\/strong> conductor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recorded: Capella Concert Hall, St. Petersburg, 1984, by “Melodiya”
\nSound engineer: Felix Gurdzhi. Mastering: Victor Dinov, 2000, St.\u00a0Petersburg Recording Studio
\nDesign: Oleg Fakhrutdinov, Anastasia Evmenova<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Almost all the works written by Dmitry Shostakovich for theatre were created during the first part of his artistic career. The 30s were especially productive in this respect. The start of Shostakovich\u2019s work in this field was marked by his cooperation with the prominent Soviet director V. Meyerhold (\u201cThe Bug\u201d by Mayakovsky, 1929). An important milestone in the composer\u2019s work was the score created by him for Shakespeare\u2019s “Hamlet” on the Vakhtangov Theatre stage, produced and designed by N.\u00a0Akimov (1932).<\/div>\n
Akimov\u2019s daring, disputable and polemic treatment of \u201cHamlet\u201d often openly satirical, aroused a storm of criticism in the press. But the same critics unanimously praised Shostakovich\u2019s music which outgrew the director\u2019s design. A critic of \u201cLiteraturnaya Gazeta” wrote that music \u201cwas the best, the most daring thing in the performance, it was all the time on a kind of magic border between irony and satire\u201d<\/div>\n
Brought out two years ago in the same Vakhtangov Theatre \u201cHuman Comedy\u201d after H.\u00a0Balzas turned out a failure. But again was stressed Shostakovich\u2019s rare ability to reproduce, with laconic devices of incidental music, the signs of the time and place no matter if it was skilfully stylised atmosphere of Pans, or sharply delineated character scenes, or dramatically intense culmination. Unfortunately, together with the performance which soon was taken off the billboards, Shostakovich\u2019s music was forgotten, with the exception of several numbers forming the Third Ballet Suite (1952).<\/div>\n
Shostakovich\u2019s last work for theatre was music for \u201cKing Lear\u201d by Shakespeare, produced by G.\u00a0Kozintsev at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theatre of Leningrad in the spring of 1941. In his book \u201cThe Deep Screen\u201d G.\u00a0Kozintsev remembered many years ago: \u201cThe performance was brought out on the eve of the Second world War. During the blockade of Leningrad the theatre revived the performance…The stage resembled a screen hung in a dug\u2013out on ramrods\u2026 The combination of Shostakovich\u2019s music and Altman\u2019s scenery seemed to transform Shakespeare\u2019s verses into sound and color\u201d.<\/div>\n
In a booklet issued for the premiere of the performance Shostakovich\u2019s article was published, its contents going beyond an author\u2019s comments to a play. The composer wrote: \u201cShakespeare\u2019s tragedies are in themselves extremely musical: from the poetry and dynamics of these tragedies music is born\u2026 Each encounter with Shakespeare evokes ideas which far exceed the modest task one sets for himself on a given occasion. Musical dreams emerge, followed by hopes\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NF\/PMA 9905<\/h2>\n

Dmitry Shostakovich <\/strong>(1906-1975)
\nMusic for Theatre<\/p>\n

Catalouge Number: NF\/PMA 9905
\nNumber of Discs: 1
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