Shostakovich - Orango Prologue, Symphony No.4
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat No: 4790249
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 18th June 2012
Contents
Artists
Los Angeles Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Esa-Pekka SalonenWorks
Orango: Prologue (orch. Gerald McBurney)Symphony no.4 in C minor, op.43
Artists
Los Angeles Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Esa-Pekka SalonenAbout
Because of its explosive political and musical content, Shostakovich left Orango unfinished. The score remained forgotten until 2004, when a 13 page piano score was found in Moscow.
At the request of the composer’s widow, Gerald McBurney orchestrated the Prologue to Shostakovich’s lost opera. Its World Premiere took place at Walt Disney Hall on December 2nd, 2011, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
On a Mahlerian scale and ranging from the darkest tragedy to dreamlike sequences of music-hall and silent-film music, Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony is one of his most dramatic and revolutionary symphonic works. Forced by austere Soviet authorities to withdraw the radical symphony shortly before its premiere, the work was first heard in public over twenty five years later, when the composer is reported to have said, “I think in many ways the Fourth is greater than my later symphonic efforts”.
The booklet contains essays by orchestrator Gerald McBurney, who tells the story of Orango’s rediscovery, and by renowned iconoclast director, Peter Sellars, who staged the work at its long-awaited Los Angeles premiere.
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