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Shostakovich - The Young Guard, Zoya (Suites from Film Scores) | Delos DRD2001

Shostakovich - The Young Guard, Zoya (Suites from Film Scores)

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Label: Delos

Cat No: DRD2001

Barcode: 0013491200125

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 10th May 2010

Contents

Artists

Minsk Chamber Choir
Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Walter Mnatsakanov

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

The Young Guard: Suite, op.75a (arr. L Atovmyan)
Zoya Suite, op.64a

Artists

Minsk Chamber Choir
Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Walter Mnatsakanov

About

In its heyday in the 1990s, Constantine Orbelian’s Russian Disc label offered many unique and highly prized recordings of Russian repertoire. Among the most successful were four programs of Shostakovich film scores. Although the Russian Disc label closed its doors in the late ‘90s, a number of RD titles are still sought-after, and even used copies have escalated in price.

Shostakovich is regarded as a pioneer of Soviet film music, and wrote scores for 30 films between 1929 and 1971. Annotator Maya Pritsker points out that in every one of his film scores, Shostakovich “remained a great symphonist, dedicated mostly to the dramatic and expressive… He preferred recreating and evoking emotions to merely making colorful sound pictures.

Contains music from the films: The Young Guard, Op.75 (1947-8) and Zoya, Op.64 (1944).

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