Great to see this collection all together in a box. Good recordings and music worth knowing...especially if you love Shostakovich. Back in the late 80's I played two concerts with James Judd when he was music director of Philharmonic orchestra of Florida...fine musician 👍
The complete New Babylon is right here on RUclips in several iterations, some with translated titles. It's instructive as well as entertaining to see how Shostakovich's music plays with the visuals.
Hi Dave, it all started with DSCH's film music. It introduced me to lots of directors, like Serebrier, Kuchar, Jurowski, etc. Still waiting for a "Meeting at the Elbe" and "The First Echelon" recording (the hit-waltz is there I think). Even watched some of the films to capture fragments that never made it into the suites. It was not normal, thought I was an obsesive-compulsive imbecil. Then I found your channel, you reply to an insecure comment and the gates opened up for me. Will go back in time. Love "Odna", "Five Nights, Five Days", "Zoya" and "The Fall of Berlin". This one I must buy. Best regards. Ignacio.
Just added this to my streaming playlist and can’t wait to dive in. DSCH was indeed a master of orchestration, which necessarily implies being a master of instrumentation. Many of Shostakovich’s works lend themselves to large forces, and when that’s true he calls for them. When he doesn’t need all those instruments, he doesn’t call for them. Seems simple enough, but certainly not a dictum followed by every composers.
Dave, I think the term you were searching for that atmospheric film music is “cues”. Usually when original soundtrack recordings feature cues that are atmospheric background of a limited number of bars of music that are usually under a minute in length that are not composed as a complete piece that can stand on its own.
You're absolutely right that Shostakovich's film music doesn't get the credit it deserves. Odna, in particular, was one of the first full soundtracks for a movie just at the point of transition out of the silent era. But he wasn't working in Hollywood so it's not well known (and you have to get past the very propagandistic storyline of the film itself). But who doesn't love a theremin? On the other end of his career, there's the spectacular work for Kosintsev's King Lear (best filmed version of that play, in my estimation, bar none) that inhabits the sound world of the 13th quartet. I'll put this set on my want list (although I do already own several of the soundtracks on Naxos.)
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Capriccio also released a good Schnittke film music box.
Great to see this collection all together in a box.
Good recordings and music worth knowing...especially if you love Shostakovich.
Back in the late 80's I played two concerts with James Judd when he was music director of Philharmonic orchestra of Florida...fine musician 👍
The complete New Babylon is right here on RUclips in several iterations, some with translated titles. It's instructive as well as entertaining to see how Shostakovich's music plays with the visuals.
Hi Dave, it all started with DSCH's film music. It introduced me to lots of directors, like Serebrier, Kuchar, Jurowski, etc. Still waiting for a "Meeting at the Elbe" and "The First Echelon" recording (the hit-waltz is there I think). Even watched some of the films to capture fragments that never made it into the suites. It was not normal, thought I was an obsesive-compulsive imbecil. Then I found your channel, you reply to an insecure comment and the gates opened up for me. Will go back in time. Love "Odna", "Five Nights, Five Days", "Zoya" and "The Fall of Berlin". This one I must buy. Best regards. Ignacio.
Just added this to my streaming playlist and can’t wait to dive in. DSCH was indeed a master of orchestration, which necessarily implies being a master of instrumentation. Many of Shostakovich’s works lend themselves to large forces, and when that’s true he calls for them. When he doesn’t need all those instruments, he doesn’t call for them. Seems simple enough, but certainly not a dictum followed by every composers.
Dave, I think the term you were searching for that atmospheric film music is “cues”. Usually when original soundtrack recordings feature cues that are atmospheric background of a limited number of bars of music that are usually under a minute in length that are not composed as a complete piece that can stand on its own.
You're absolutely right that Shostakovich's film music doesn't get the credit it deserves. Odna, in particular, was one of the first full soundtracks for a movie just at the point of transition out of the silent era. But he wasn't working in Hollywood so it's not well known (and you have to get past the very propagandistic storyline of the film itself). But who doesn't love a theremin? On the other end of his career, there's the spectacular work for Kosintsev's King Lear (best filmed version of that play, in my estimation, bar none) that inhabits the sound world of the 13th quartet. I'll put this set on my want list (although I do already own several of the soundtracks on Naxos.)
Hi Dave, where do you get those sheet music score books from?
I just look for sources on the internet. Sheet Music Plus was a good source a few years ago.