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Hypothetically Murdered

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Label
Signum Classics
Catalogusnummer
SIGCD 051
EAN / barcode
0635212005125
Verschijningsdatum
31 augustus 2004
Type
Album

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For Shostakovich the six years which span this recording (1931 – 1937) were a period of almost incredibly change and upheaval. It was at this time that the young man faced his first serious political difficulties which culminated in the terrors of 1936. In 1930, the composer met the celebrated vaudeville and pioneer jazz-performer Leonid Utiosov, an astonishing talent who introduced Shostakovich to the world of the theatre. Hypothetically Murdered was written in 1931 to open the Music Hall’s new season. After its initial run, the show was not revived and at some point, probably during the siege of Leningrad, the full-score, parts and libretto disappeared, leaving only a folder with around 40 pages of detailed piano sketches with instrumental indications. The Orchestral Suite Op. 31a, given its world premiere recording on this disc, consists of all the complete surviving orchestral numbers from the folder of sketches, reorchestrated from the composers scribbled notes, and in the style of his surviving theatre music from the period. Nearly six years after Hypotheically Murdered, Shostakovich finished his Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin Op. 46. By this time the composer, and his messages, have profoundly changed. These Romances are music of mature seriousness, and dark with sorrow set against the literary work of the greatest and most humane of all Russian writers. After finishing the Romances, Shostakovich went on to create the Fifth Symphony, using motifs and fragments from the first poem – Rebirth. Thus he was able to hide the words of Pushkin’s passionate poem, a declaration to the power of art to survive barbarism and oppression, beneath the musical argument of his symphonic finale. The fascinating and rarely performed Five Fragments, written in a single sitting in July 1935, are one of Shostakovich’s last experimental works. They prepare the ground for the composition of the massive Fourth Symphony, just as the Romances do for the Fifth. The popular Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 was written early in 1934. This delightful highly ironic music is a continuation of the spirit of laughter and adventure that had earlier led Shostakovich to work with the great Utiosov on Hypothetically Murdered. As with most ‘Soviet Jazz’ of the period there is not much jazz here, more of a feeling of operetta and cabaret music and also of Jewish songs. Despite such jollity there is always an undertone of depth and darkness, of real sadness and foreboding underlying the sentimentality and parody.
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Tracklist

  1. 01 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): Transition To The Field Hospital 01:01
  2. 02 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): Gallop 03:18
  3. 03 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): Transition To The Field 01:03
  4. 04 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): The Field (Landscape) 01:50
  5. 05 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Intro To Act II (Petrushka) 00:13
  6. 06 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Petrushka (Garmoshka) 01:12
  7. 07 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Storm 01:00
  8. 08 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: The Arrival Of The Lorry 00:18
  9. 09 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Dance 01:18
  10. 10 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Transition To The Kitchen (Jugglers and Waitresses) 01:34
  11. 11 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Waitresses 02:20
  12. 12 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Paradise I: The Flight Of The Cherubim 01:26
  13. 13 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Paradise II: The Flight Of The Angels 01:26
  14. 14 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Adagio 02:30
  15. 15 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Bacchanalia Of John Von Kronstadt and Paraskeva Piatnitsa 01:41
  16. 16 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Waltz 03:33
  17. 17 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: The Archangel Gabriel's Number 01:51
  18. 18 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): Polka 01:33
  19. 19 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): March 01:40
  20. 20 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): The River Bed 04:45
  21. 21 Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): Finale To Act I: Dance of the Temporary Victors 03:51
  22. 22 Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 1. Rebirth 02:13
  23. 23 Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 2. Jealousy 01:32
  24. 24 Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 3. Foreboding 02:50
  25. 25 Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 4. Stanzas 05:28
  26. 26 Five Fragments, Op.42: 1. Moderato 01:24
  27. 27 Five Fragments, Op.42: 2. Andante 01:17
  28. 28 Five Fragments, Op.42: 3. Largo 03:44
  29. 29 Five Fragments, Op.42: 4. Moderato 02:36
  30. 30 Five Fragments, Op.42: 5. Allegretto 01:25
  31. 31 Suite No.1 for Jazz Band, Sans Op.E: 1. Waltz 02:46
  32. 32 Suite No.1 for Jazz Band, Sans Op.E: 2. Polka 01:53
  33. 33 Suite No.1 for Jazz Band, Sans Op.E: 3. Foxtrot (Blues) 04:36

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