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The vocal quality is first rate: leading soprano Irina Mataeva, jolly tenor Dmitry Voropaev and a lovely imitation of folk-lullaby from mezzo Anna Kiknadze. Orchestral solos, especially high-lying... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Dec 2007
Catalogue No: 8570316
Label: Naxos
Series: Film Music Classics
Length: 79 minutes

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Shostakovich: Odna (Alone), Op. 26 [reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald]

Work length14:26

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Irina Mataeva, Anna Kiknadze, Dmitry Voropaev, Mark van Tongeren, Barbara Buchholz, Ulrich Edelmann
Frankfurt Vocal Ensemble, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Mark Fitz-Gerald

The Beginning [Overture]

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: Kuzmina wakes

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: Konchen, konchen tekhnikum

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: Morning Exercises

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: March, "the Street"

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: Kuzmina waits Sobolevsky

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: Galop - Kakaya horoshaya budet zhizn'! [How Good Life will Be!]

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: March

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Reel 1, Kuzmina in Leningrad: [Original] Introduction - The Cockery Sings: Ostan'sya! [Stay!]

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Reel 2, Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher: Office Typewriters

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Reel 2, Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher: A Young Girl Signs Up

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Shostakovich: Odna (Alone), Op. 26 [reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald], Reel 2, Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher: Music from the Loudspeakers During Telephone Box Scene [composed by Padre Martini, arr. F. Kreisler]

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Irina Mataeva, Anna Kiknadze, Dmitry Voropaev, Mark van Tongeren, Barbara Buchholz, Ulrich Edelmann
Frankfurt Vocal Ensemble, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Mark Fitz-Gerald

Shostakovich: Odna (Alone), Op. 26 [reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald]

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Irina Mataeva, Anna Kiknadze, Dmitry Voropaev, Mark van Tongeren, Barbara Buchholz, Ulrich Edelmann
Frankfurt Vocal Ensemble, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Mark Fitz-Gerald

Reel 2, Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher: Kuzmina Starts to Sign Up

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Reel 2, Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher: March

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Reel 2, Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher: Barrel-Organ

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Reel 2, Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher: The Old Janitor Flirts with Her

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Reel 3, Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes: Overtone Singer

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Reel 3, Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes: The Steppe of the Altai

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Reel 3, Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes: The Altai

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Reel 3, Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes: She Meets the Village Chairman and Some of the Locals

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Reel 3, Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes: Kuzmina in Her Peasant's Hut

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Reel 3, Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes: Kuzmina Takes Courage

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: Introduction

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: The School Class

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: The Bai Selects the Children to Tend the Sheep

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: Kuzmina Is Struck as She Protests

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: The Village Children's Wife Sings a Lullaby to Her Baby

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: Kuzmina Sees the Wife's Crockery and Reminisces

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: The Village Soviet Chairman Waking Up

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: Kuzmina Confronts the Village Chairman

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Reel 4, Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children: The Village Chairman Drinks Tea with His Wife

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Reel 5, Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air. The Children Play and Dance with Her

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Reel 5, Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air. The Bai and the Sheep Trader, a Sheep Is Slaughtered

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Reel 5, Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air. Kuzmina Protests

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Reel 5, Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air. The Bai Shouts Back at Her

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Reel 5, Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air. The Locals Conspire to Murder Kuzmina

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Reel 6, Attempted Murder of Kuzmina: Kuzmina on Her Way to the Next Town

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Reel 6, Attempted Murder of Kuzmina: A Snowstorm Starts to Build

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Reel 6, Attempted Murder of Kuzmina: Snowstorm

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Reel 6, Attempted Murder of Kuzmina: Kuzmina Almost Freezes to Death [beginning]

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Reel 6, Attempted Murder of Kuzmina: Kuzmina Almost Freezes to Death [conclusion]

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Reel 7, Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane: The Village Chairman Meets with the Locals

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Reel 7, Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane: Kuzmina Close to Death to Bed

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Reel 7, Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane: The Village Chairman and Meeting

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Reel 7, Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane: The Children Come to Comfort Kuzmina

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Reel 7, Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane: The Village Chairman Plans Her Funeral

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Reel 7, Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane: The Locals Express Themselves Violently

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Reel 7, Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane: The Aeroplane from Moscow Arrives to Rescue the Teacher

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World Première Complete Recording. Set in late 1920s Leningrad and then in the Altai Mountains in Russian Mongolia, Shostakovich’s second film ODNA (Alone) features a dazzling score for a huge orchestra including a banda (8 brass band instruments), theremin, (Shostakovich was one of the first composers to write for this new electronic instrument), barrel-organ, a soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, an overtone singer and choir. It has been reconstructed from the official Russian version of the film by Mark Fitz-Gerald, with the official approval of Mrs Irina Shostakovich. The recording also restores a short Overture and a beautiful, lyrical prelude that were not used in the film. The booklet includes notes on the music by leading Shostakovich film music expert, John Riley, and on overtone singing by Mark van Tongeren who performs on the recording. There are also transliterations and translations of the vocal score.

Reviews

August 2008

The vocal quality is first rate: leading soprano Irina Mataeva, jolly tenor Dmitry Voropaev and a lovely imitation of folk-lullaby from mezzo Anna Kiknadze. Orchestral solos, especially high-lying oboe and grunting contrabassoon, are superbly done…

2010

Although long known through various selections, Shostakovich's second film score Odna ('Alone') is only now available complete. This 1931 Kozintsev/Trauberg collaboration – in which a young teacher finds herself transferred to the remote Altai region, incurs the wrath of the local peasantry and is left to die in a snowstorm, only to be rescued by a Soviet plane – emerged on the cusp of 'silent' and 'sound' cinema. Lack of suitable venues meant the film received few showings with its soundtrack and, while it received considerable acclaim abroad, it was allowed to fall into obscurity until the 1960s.
Even now, the film – reconstructed after the master was destroyed in wartime Leningrad – is missing its 'snowstorm' reel. Luckily, the score has now been reclaimed in full – due in no small part to Mark Fitz-Gerald, who has assembled it from numerous sources and presented it in live showings around Western Europe. The result is one of Shostakovich's most innovative scores: the ebullience of his early theatre music being combined with music anticipating the emotional intensity of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, alongside some of his most startling experiments – with cues for overtone singing and a contribution from the theremin (an early electronic instrument).
The brief vocal items are attractively done, and Fitz-Gerald secures playing of exceptional vitality from the Frankfurt orchestra. Vividly recorded, with a detailed note from Russian film expert John Riley, Odna is engrossing and pleasurable in purely musical terms. Those wishing to investigate Shostakovich's film music should start here.

February 2008

The brief vocal items are attractively done, and Fitz-Gerald secures playing exceptional vitality from the Frankfurt orchestra. Vividly recorded, with a detailed note from Russian film expert John Riley, Odna is engrossing and pleasurable in purely musical terms.

Russian singers and Frankfurt’s radio orchestra lap up Fitz-Gerald’s reconstruction; a job well done all round.

Shostakovich: Odna - film score, Op. 26

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