Shostakovich: The Gadfly; Five Days - Five Nights (Suites)
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Composer: Dmitry ShostakovichConductor: Theodore Kuchar
Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Orchestra: Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-02-04
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Overture
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Contredanse
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Folk Feast (National Holiday)
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Interlude
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Barrel-Organ Waltz
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Galop
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Introduction (Prelude)
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Romance
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Intermezzo
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Nocturne
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Scene
- The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Finale
- Five Days - Five Nights, suite from the film score, Op. 111a (assembled by Atovmyan): Introduction
- Five Days - Five Nights, suite from the film score, Op. 111a (assembled by Atovmyan): Dresden in Ruins
- Five Days - Five Nights, suite from the film score, Op. 111a (assembled by Atovmyan): The Liberation of Dresden
- Five Days - Five Nights, suite from the film score, Op. 111a (assembled by Atovmyan): Interlude
- Five Days - Five Nights, suite from the film score, Op. 111a (assembled by Atovmyan): Finale
Music reviews of Shostakovich: The Gadfly; Five Days - Five Nights (Suites)
Music Review: Generally fine performances of appealing if slight music
Rating: 3 Stars
The music on this disc isn't exactly first-rate Shostakovich, but the tuneful and appealing suite from the Gadfly at least makes for very pleasant listening. In fact, many of the numbers are genuinely memorable, and the level of melodic invention is sustained more or less throughout. The same cannot really be said for the suite from Five Days, Five Nights; a strangely pale and rather uninvolving mixture of reminiscences of the composer's eleventh symphony, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet and Beethoven's Ninth. Still, it's worth hearing at least for Shostakovich fans, and since the main bulk of the playing time is taken up by the engaging Gadfly suite, I won't complain. The performances are idiomatic and mostly fine, but the string sound is dangerously thin at times, making parts of the Gadfly suite sound a little scruffy and grainy. I haven't heard any of the alternative recordings, but this one warrants a safe enough recommendation as a disc of pleasant, second-rate Shostakovich. I don't recall anything in particular about the sound quality, which I guess means that there cannot have been anything seriously objectionable about it.
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