Shostakovich: The Bedbug & Love and Hate / Fitz-Gerald, Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 8, 2019
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRI
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Mannheim Opera Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Juris, Fitz-Gerald
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 08, 2019
    • UPC
      747313410071
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574100
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Shostakovich was still a young composer when he was hired to provide incidental music for The Bedbug, a surreal and farcical satire on Communist utopian dreams and bourgeois corruption and vulgarity. He produced a terrifically knockabout score that draws on local fireman’s bands and American dance music. Illustrated by Shostakovich’s powerful middle-period music, Love and Hate is a film about female fortitude set in a mining village during the 1919 Civil War. The innovative score, newly reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from rough piano sketches and the 1935 soundtrack, combines symphonic sections with popular songs.