Shostakovich - New Babylon
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Label: Naxos - Film Music Classics
Cat No: 857282425
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 31st October 2011
Contents
Artists
Basel SinfoniettaConductor
Mark Fitz-GeraldAbout
This recording of New Babylon, one of Shostakovich’s most inventive and truly symphonic film scores, is the first complete recording of all the surviving music from the original ‘lost’ manuscript full score and the first to use five solo string players only, as conceived by the composer.
A remarkable collage of marches, can-cans, carnival music, tumultuous rhythms and musical quotations, New Babylon bristles with witty dissonance and brassy ebullience, emphasising the film’s content rather than its visual surface.
Described as “one of the indispensable Shostakovich interpreters of our time”, Mark Fitz-Gerald has performed the Trauberg/Shostakovich classic New Babylon (1929) to great critical acclaim, in particular at the Japanese première of the work (opening concert of the Tokyo Summer Festival in 2000) and the Rotterdam Gergiev Festival 2001.
His two previous Naxos world première recordings of Shostakovich’s film scores for Alone (8570316) and The Girlfriends (8572138) have been highly acclaimed.
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