Shostakovich: Moscow – Cheryomushki suite / The Bolt suite / The Gadfly – excerpts, Opp. 27a,97,105 (The Dance Album)

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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 15-APR-1997

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Shostakovich (1906-1975) had two distinct musical personalities: the grim alchemist of the string quartets and symphonies and the happy Soviet of his dance and film scores. These works are of the latter Shostakovich–but don’t let that put you off. There is a great deal of good music here, and if some of it is ultimately trivial, who cares? Much of the frenetic dance rhythms come from the 1920s and 1930s era of Stalinist Modernism: happy workers, happy factories, happy collectives. It’s still fun (and remember, even Prokofiev had it). This is an excellent recording all the way around. –Paul Cook