Shostakovich: The Girlfriends (complete) / Rule Britannia / Salute to Spain

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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Girlfriends (complete) / Rule Britannia / Salute to Spain
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Mark Fitz-Gerald

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 1 June 2009

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MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 --"..conductor Mark Fitz-Gerald has done his job excellently, and he leads a sensitive and cogent performance of the 23 brief movements that comprise the complete score."
(10 / 10 ClassicsToday)

MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009

"This disc may be aimed more at the Shostakovich completist, but it's no less wonderful for that. The Girlfriends is a major film score dating from the same time in the 1930s as the scandal surrounding Stalin's denunciation of the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District. Scored lightly, for string quartet, piano, trumpet, and larger forces only in a couple of numbers, the music is mostly lyrical, attractive, and (given the composer and the period) remarkably sensitive. Some of it had to be reconstructed from the actual film soundtrack, but conductor Mark Fitz-Gerald has done his job excellently, and he leads a sensitive and cogent performance of the 23 brief movements that comprise the complete score."
(10 / 10 ClassicsToday)

This treasure trove of Shostakovich rarities presents four world première recordings. The music for the film The Girlfriends, newly reconstructed from various original sources including the 1934 soundtrack and a number of recently discovered Preludes, and the scores for the stage productions of Salute to Spain and Rule, Britannia!, come from one of the most fertile and brilliant periods of the composer's creative life and are almost completely unknown. The unfinished symphonic movement from 1945, that had lain hidden for more than half a century, turns out to be Shostakovich's first idea for his Ninth Symphony. Described by DSCH Journal as 'one of the indispensable Shostakovich interpreters of our time', Mark Fitz-Gerald adds to his highly acclaimed reconstruction of Shostakovich's music for the 'sound-silent' film Odna (Alone), released on Naxos 8.570316.

Tracks:

Podrugi (Girl Friends), Op. 41a (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)
1. Introduction (opening credits) 00:03:04
2. The Year 1914: The workers' residential block and factory gates 00:02:08
3. The families wait for the strikers to return 00:03:38
4. The Inn of the Keys to Happiness 00:02:26
5. The children attempt to sing their poppy song 00:02:56
6. By the river: Revolutionary song Zamuchen tiazheloi nevolei (Tormented by a Lack of Freedom) 00:00:52
7. Fanfare 00:00:27
8. The story of Silych's son, Ivan 00:02:16
9. Zamuchen tiazheloi nevolei (Tormented by a Lack of Freedom) 00:05:12
10. The Year 1919, Russian Civil War - Fanfare and Organ Voluntary 00:01:37
11. Internationale: The girls leave for war 00:02:03
12. The girls attend to the wounded soldiers on the battlefield 00:01:47
13. Alla Marcia: The town of Pushkin has been taken by the enemy 00:01:09
14. Internationale: The girls and the wounded soldiers retreat by train 00:01:46
15. Zoya in the snowy forest 00:01:47
16. The Forester's Hut 00:02:51
17. Fanfare: Andrei arrives with news from the front 00:00:29
18. Fanfare 00:00:46
19. The girls find a chicken 00:01:56
20. Natasha and Zoya sing a nostalgic song, Gde eti tyoplie nochi (Where are those warm nights?) 00:01:49
21. Natasha and Zoya are rescued 00:01:42
22. Fanfare: Andrei and Senka arrive 00:00:40
23. Andrei's closing words 00:03:12

Prav', Britaniya (Rule, Britannia), Op. 28
24. Internationale 00:01:43
25. Infantry March 00:01:50
26. Along the Soviet Route 00:01:07
27. Protest 00:02:28
28. Raising the Banner 00:00:37
29. The Banners Flap in the Wind 00:01:00

Salyut, Ispaniya (Salute to Spain), Op. 44
30. Fanfare I 00:00:15
31. March of the Officers 00:01:37
32. Fanfare II 00:00:10
33. Anon.: A las barricadas! (To the Barricades!) (arranged by M. Fitz - Gerald) 00:01:17
34. Song of Rosita 00:02:35
35. Fanfare III 00:00:13
36. attrib. I. S. Aturov: Po dolinam i po vzgor'yam (Along the valleys and over the hills) (arranged by M. Fitz - Gerald) 00:01:08
37. Reminiscence of the Song of Rosita 00:00:56
38. Lucia's Funeral March 00:02:42

39. Symphonic Fragment (1st version of Symphony no. 9) 00:06:42

Total Playing Time: 01:12:53