Shostakovich: The Young Lady and the Hooligan.

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Fairytale gets this CD off to a thrilling start: it's a ferocious onslaught based on Hans Christian Andersen's Story of the Wind. …the student Orkester Norden, recorded live in concert, has... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2004, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Dec 2009
Catalogue No: 9143
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 52 minutes

Shostakovich: The Young Lady and the Hooligan.

Work length29:26

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Andrei Kolokolov, Nikolai Kvitko, Mikhail Puryenski, Andrei Skorobogatko, Mikhail Spivak, Nazar Dzhuryn
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Mark Gorenstein

Introduction

Track length6:35

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Street

Track length1:51

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The Hooligan

Track length2:03

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The Lady

Track length3:08

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School

Track length2:27

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Prayer

Track length4:11

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Tavern

Track length4:47

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Visions

Track length4:24

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Shostakovich: The Young Lady and the Hooligan, Scene

Work length2:55

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Andrei Kolokolov, Nikolai Kvitko, Mikhail Puryenski, Andrei Skorobogatko, Mikhail Spivak, Nazar Dzhuryn
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Mark Gorenstein

Shostakovich: The Young Lady and the Hooligan.

Work length19:57

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$6.50

Andrei Kolokolov, Nikolai Kvitko, Mikhail Puryenski, Andrei Skorobogatko, Mikhail Spivak, Nazar Dzhuryn
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Mark Gorenstein

Promenade in Park

Track length3:23

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(Adagio)

Track length6:57

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Fight

Track length1:42

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Finale

Track length7:55

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Shostakovich composed many ballet scores, which kept the income flowing in and also kept him in the good books of the increasingly brutal dictatorship of Josef Stalin as many of these ballets were little more than Soviet propaganda exercises. The subject matter ranged from romantic comedies set on collective farms, a story about the Soviet football team, to a comedy set in an industrial complex under threat of sabotage. In 1936 he had sailed perilously close to the wind and had his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk banned by the authorities. His Fourth Symphony was also withdrawn and had to wait until 1963 for its premiere. Shostakovich’s original ballet scores such as The Bolt and The Golden Age are reasonably well known. However, works such as The Limpid Stream are less well known. Early in the 1950s the composer allowed Levon Atovmyan to arrange all the scores in four ballet suites for large orchestra.

These suites raided the scores of the ballets and the numerous film scores. In the early 1960 new ballets were devised for the music. The most successful was Baryishnya I khuligan (The Lady and the Hooligan), a one-act ballet of 13 numbers, and is a story of a young lady who is sent as a supply teacher to a school where a violent gang form most of the class. A bond develops between her and one of the boys, but on day the gang attempt to mug the teacher. The boy defends her, and is beaten senseless by his ‘friends’ and dies in the young lady’s arms. Much of the music for the ballet is from other works, The Limpid Stream, the Cello Sonata and The Bolt in particular, but also from the famous romance from The Gadfly film score.

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November 2004

Fairytale gets this CD off to a thrilling start: it's a ferocious onslaught based on Hans Christian Andersen's Story of the Wind. …the student Orkester Norden, recorded live in concert, has as much clarity and virtuosity as you could wish for - as does Thomas Adès in the Second Sonata from the 2001 Aldeburgh Festival... This is a big performance of a big piece, with the patterns of bell-ringing insistent in the texture, particularly in the first movement - another example of Ruders maintaining tension and momentum over a long span.

Shostakovich: The Young Lady and the Hooligan.

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