Shostakovich: The Gadfly (Complete) / Fitz-Gerald, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

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Set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy during a turbulent period of pre-Unification political unrest, The Gadfly drew from Shostakovich one of his most dazzling and popular film...

Set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy during a turbulent period of pre-Unification political unrest, The Gadfly drew from Shostakovich one of his most dazzling and popular film scores, heard hitherto on record only in a suite arranged and reorchestrated by Levon Atovmian. This recording presents the full, original score for the first time, as closely as possible to shostakovich’s original conception. Reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from the original manuscript and the Russian film soundtrack, it calls for a large orchestra including church bells, an organ, two guitars and a mandolin, all excluded from the Atovmian suite. The excerpts from The Counterplan, which marked the fifteenth anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, include the infectious hit-tune The Song of the Counterplan.



Product Description:


  • Release Date: November 10, 2017


  • UPC: 747313374779


  • Catalog Number: 8573747


  • Label: Naxos


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich


  • Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra


  • Performer: Christian Wernicke, Elke Voelker, Florian Barak, Nikolaus Boewer, Ralph Herrnkind