Shostakovich: Hamlet

Shostakovich: Hamlet

Shostakovich: Hamlet
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Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich
Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky
Orchestra: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture (Suite, No. 1)
  2. Military Music
  3. Fanfares
  4. The Palace Ball (Suite, No. 2)
  5. Story Of Horatio And The Ghost
  6. The Ball
  7. The Ghost (Suite, No. 3)
  8. Hamlet's Parting From Ophelia
  9. Palace Music
  10. Arrival Of The Players (Suite, No. 6)
  11. Monologue (What A Rogue And Peasant Slave)
  12. Hamlet's Monologue (To Be Or Not To Be)
  13. Royal Fanfare
  14. In The Garden (Suite, No. 4)
  15. Booth Fanfare
  16. Poisoning Scene (Suite, No. 5)
  17. The Flutes Play
  18. Ophelia's Descent Into Madness (Song Of Ophelia)
  19. Ophelia's Insanity
  20. Death Of Ophelia (Suite, No. 7)
  21. Hamlet At Ophelia's Grave
  22. The Cemetery
  23. The Duel/The Death Of Hamlet/Hamlet's Funeral (Suite, No. 8)

Music reviews of Shostakovich: Hamlet

Music Review: Shostakovich As a Great Film Music Composer
Rating: 5 Stars

By my title I don't necessarily mean the FILM is great (I've not seen it) but the music certainly is. As far as I know we've not had the complete film score on CD before; there have been several recordings (conducted by Chailly and Previn, among others) of a suite from the score. This one does not have to take a back seat to any recording I've ever heard of the suite. And it contains music that we'd not otherwise hear, some of it extraordinarily evocative. More and more, with some recent widely distributed recordings, we are coming to know Shostakovich as a masterful film composer. Look for CDs of his music for 'The Great Citizen,' 'Pirogov,' 'The Gadfly, 'The New Babylon,' among others. Just as we remember Prokofiev for his ballet scores, we may come to remember Shostakovich just as much for his film music. And these are not the typical Hollywood-style scores; they don't sound so much like movie music as descriptive tone poems.

Dmitry Yablonsky conducts the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, a group that has been coming on strong in recent times; Yablonsky is their Principal Conductor and he certainly gets all one could ask for from them. The playing is alert and flexible, musical and suave, spooky and exciting. In the spooky passages (and there are some moments of real frisson in the scene with Hamlet's Father's ghost) I was actually made to feel eerily unsettled.

Some highlights of the score: The Ghost, The Ball, Arrival of the Players, Monologue ('What a rogue and peasant slave'), Monologue ('To be or not to be'), In the Garden, Death of Ophelia, and 'The Duel - Death of Hamlet - Hamlet's Funeral.' The latter is an emotionally evocative 7-minute tone poem that could stand on its own.

This CD also has a release on SACD which I have not heard. But on this plain vanilla CD the sound is demonstration quality, so I can only imagine what it must be like with surround sound.

Recommended.

TT=62:28

Scott Morrison

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Description of Shostakovich: Hamlet

Naxos announces the new Film Music Classics series, whose inaugural release is the first ever complete recording of Shostakovich?s film music to Hamlet. Written in the early 1960s for Kozintsev?s film, Shostakovich?s music for Hamlet is generally considered to be his best film score, with an absolute clarity of vision and containing some of his most intense music. The film won several film festival prizes, while the score was used for a number of ballets based on Hamlet. The eight-part suite compiled by Shostakovich?s friend Lev Atovmian in 1964 is the usual guise of Shostakovich?s music. However, for this unique recording the suite has been integrated with the original complete published score, which includes music not used in the final cut of the film.

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