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Shostakovich - The Lady and The Hooligan | Brilliant Classics 9143

Shostakovich - The Lady and The Hooligan

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 9143

Barcode: 5029365914321

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 14th December 2009

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Contents

Artists

Russian Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Mark Gorenstein

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

The Lady and the Hooligan

Artists

Russian Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Mark Gorenstein

About

Shostakovich composed many ballet scores, which kept the income flowing in and also kept him in the good books of the increasingly brutal dictatorship of Josef Stalin, as many of these ballets were little more than Soviet propaganda exercises. The subject matter ranged from romantic comedies set on collective farms, a story about the Soviet football team, to a comedy set in an industrial complex under threat of sabotage.

In 1936 he had sailed perilously close to the wind and had his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk banned by the authorities. His Fourth Symphony was also withdrawn and had to wait until 1963 for its premiere. Shostakovich’s original ballet scores, such as The Bolt and The Golden Age, are reasonably well known. However, works such as The Limpid Stream are less well known.

Early in the 1950s the composer allowed Levon Atovmyan to arrange all the scores in four ballet suites for large orchestra. These suites raided the scores of the ballets and the numerous film scores. In the early 1960s, new ballets were devised for the music. The most successful was Baryishnya I khuligan (The Lady and the Hooligan), a one-act ballet of 13 numbers, and is a story of a young lady who is sent as a supply teacher to a school where a violent gang form most of the class. A bond develops between her and one of the boys, but one day the gang attempt to mug the teacher. The boy defends her, and is beaten senseless by his ‘friends’ and dies in the young lady’s arms. Much of the music for the ballet is from other works - The Limpid Stream, the Cello Sonata and The Bolt in particular - but also from the famous romance from The Gadfly film score.

Track Listing:
1. Introduction: Adagio
2. The Street
3. The Hooligan
4. The Young Lady
5. The School
6. The Prayer
7. The Cabaret
8. Vision
9. Scene
10. In the Park
11. Adagio
12. Brawl
13. Finale

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