Shostakovich: The Golden Age
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Music CD Cover Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich Conductor: José Serebrier Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2006-11-21 Music Label: Naxos Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Shostakovich: The Golden Age Album
Free Music Review: A combination of cheeky fun and musical wallpaper
Hit: 4 Stars
Between them Mr. Morrison and the Amazon reviewer have covered everything that needs to be said (and more) about Shostakovich's cheeky first ballet, The Age of Gold. Even in 1930 the anti-bourgeois, anti-capitalist rhetoric of the scenario was tiresome, so it helps to ignore it. I concentrated instead on the jazzy parts of the score, which are supposed to portray Western decadence but turn out, naturally, to be a lot more fun than the virtuous music assigned to our heroic Soviet soccer players. There are some seriously modernist, dissonant sections as well; we are in Shostakovitch's manic-depressive emotional world, after all.
I wish I could second the other reviewers in calling this very long ballet a thrilling romp. To my ears, though, there's a lot of musical wallpaper and banal writing. Nor does Serebrier's conducting catch fire until No. 8, the opening numbers sounding routine and flat. Shostakovich put together his best jazzy incidental music into two Jazz Suites that are consistently better than this work. But it's good to have a complete recording of a major Shostakovich ballet--the other two being The Bolt and The Limpid Stream--in excellent sound at a relatively low price.