Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 1. Introduction and Night Patrol. Allegro non troppo - Moderato. Poco allegretto
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 2. Funeral March. Adagio
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 3. Flourisch and Dance Music. Allegro - Allegretto
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 1. Introduction and Night Patrol. Allegro non troppo - Moderato. Poco allegretto
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 2. Funeral March. Adagio
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 3. Flourisch and Dance Music. Allegro - Allegretto
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 4. The Hunt. Allegro
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 9. Ophelia's Song. Allegro - Meno mosso - Presto
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 10. Cradle Song. Andantino
Hamlet, suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (unrelated to film score): 11. Requiem. Adagio
The Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons came of age in the 1990s and was trained in Russia; he has the music and the emotional content of Shostakovich's symphonies in his DNA. The present double album is the second in a series titled Under Stalin's Shadow and devoted to the music from the middle of Shostakovich's career, when the interference of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in artistic affairs could easily have cost the composer his neck. The light, cheeky Suite from Hamlet that opens the second CD is a representative, if ...
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The Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons came of age in the 1990s and was trained in Russia; he has the music and the emotional content of Shostakovich's symphonies in his DNA. The present double album is the second in a series titled Under Stalin's Shadow and devoted to the music from the middle of Shostakovich's career, when the interference of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in artistic affairs could easily have cost the composer his neck. The light, cheeky Suite from Hamlet that opens the second CD is a representative, if little-heard, piece in the style Shostakovich explored when Stalin was coming to power in the early 1930s, while the three symphonies embodied differing responses to the totalitarian environment: responses that have continued to resonate in cultures far beyond that of the Soviet Union. The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, was titled "A Soviet artist's creative response to just criticism"; it was, perhaps, a flight into hyper-emotionalism. The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65,...
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