Shostakovich: The Film Album
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Composer: Dmitry ShostakovichConductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra: Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Performer: Alexander Kerr
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-02-09
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Presto
- Andante
- The Song of the counterplan
- Marche, the Street
- Galop
- Barrel organ
- March
- Altai
- In Kuzmina's Hut
- School children
- Storm breaks
- Snow storm
- Calm after the Storm
- Introduction
- Palace music
- Ball at the castle
- Ball
- In the garden
- Military music
- Scene of the poisoning
- Funeral march
- Waltz
- Scherzo
- Romance
- Finale
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Free Music Review: Another Sensational Recording by Chailly
Hit: 5 Stars
This recording of Shostakovich's film scores is one of three in a series by conductor Riccardo Chailly. In this particular CD, Chailly is conducting the stupendous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. While the music presented on this disc may not be as memorable or exciting as that found on the other two CDs, it shows a glimpse into the genious that was Shostakovich's orchestrations. Don't get me wrong, the music is fantastic and wonderful!
The sound is of the highest caliber and, as expected, the quality and vitality of interpretation is second to none. An amazing recording well worth your money! Out of the hundreds of classical CDs in my library, these three featuring Chailly with the music of Shostakovich are amongst my very favorite.
Shostakovich: The Film Album Poster
Continuing Riccardo Chailly's topical Shostakovich recordings (he's already visited the composer's jazz-inflected and dance pieces), this collection of music for film offers the series greater heft. The music here is as entangled in politics and pop culture as the jazzy and dancy material, but here the emotions are more complex and the execution more exciting.The films Shostakovich was scoring somehow sought legitimacy or outright approval from Soviet power regimes, but as in all his music, Shostakovich enacted subtle subversions. The parade-step march cadences of The Counterplan are exaggerated just enough to integrate all kinds of conflicting dark undertows, emphasized coyly by Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The excerpts from Alone are all over the map, spooky and turbulent and bleak in equal measures, in answer to so many mandated bright, blasting musical ventures elsewhere in the Soviet cultural regime. The works continue until 1967, with a twisty waltz from Sofia Perovskaya, which seems more like a distant comment on the notion of a dance piece than music scripted for dance. For its mix of big, lit sweeps and minute, shadowy motions, this is one of the best single-CD Shostakovich sets--themed or not--in print. --Andrew Bartlett
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