Shostakovich: The Human Comedy; The Nose; The Shot

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Naxos
Release Date
October 10, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Dmitry Shostakovich
    • PERFORMER
      Tor Lind, Kenny Staskus Larsen, Allan Sjolin, Jesper Sivebæk, Edward Stewart, Lars Notto Birkeland
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 10, 2025
    • UPC
      747313459070
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574590
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Workers' Song of Victory: Moderato

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    2. Moderato

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    3. Andantino

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    4. Marziale

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    5. Moderato

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    6. Marcia: Vivo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    7. Moderato

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    8. Entry and Exit of the Heads of Departments: Marziale

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    9. Bored Workers' Song of Protest: Marziale

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    10. Episode 4: Con moto

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    11. Exit from the Factory: Marziale

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    12. Episode 7: Entry of the Technical Secretaries: Tempo ad libitum

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Allan Sjølin, Jesper Sivebæk

    13. Episode 9: Allegro

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    14. Episode 10: Allegro

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    15. Episode 11: Allegretto

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    16. Vïstrel (The Shot), Op. 24: Dun'dya's Lament (Romance): Allegro moderato (ed. E. Stewart and M. Fitz-Gerald)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Tor Lind, Kenny Staškus Larsen, Edward Stewart

    17. Introduction

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    18. Overture

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    19. Chelovecheskaya komediya (The Human Comedy), Op. 37: The Students' Song (sung with texts by A. Belina and M. Fitz-Gerald in Russian)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    20. Waltz

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Christian Einarsson

    21. Elegy

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Christian Einarsson

    22. March

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    23. Merry Paris

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    24. The Theatre

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    25. Act II: Finale

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    26. The Theme of Paris

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    27. Cruel Paris

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    28. Gavotte and Trio

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    29. Flourish: Allegro molto

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    30. The Panorama of Paris

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    31. Panic on the Exchange

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    32. Barrel Organ

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    33. Scene, "The Bank of the Seine"

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    34. Casket with Diamonds

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    35. Chelovecheskaya komediya (The Human Comedy), Op. 37: Broken Box (arr. M. Fitz-Gerald for string quartet)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    36. Police March

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    37. Flourish: Allegro

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    38. Sarabande

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    39. Scandal, "Hullabaloo"

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    40. Nos (The Nose), Op. 15, Act I: Entr'acte (before Scene 4, "Kazan Cathedral", 1st version ed. M. Fitz-Gerald)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Lars Notto Birkeland

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    41. Nos (The Nose), Op. 15, Act III: Introduction (discarded)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    42. Nos (The Nose), Op. 15, Act II: Entr'acte (after Scene 5, discarded version)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald

    43. Viborgskaya storona (Viborg District), Op. 50: March of the Anarchists (reconstructed M. Fitz-Gerald)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald


Shostakovich was known for his fun-loving attitude during his early years as a composer. The colourful incidental music for The Shot - reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from the original piano scores - vividly evokes the raucous life of experimental youth theatre in Leningrad during the late 1920s. This carefree world had changed dramatically by 1934 when Shostakovich completed his music for The Human Comedy - a work that creates a charming atmosphere of Parisian escapism. Discarded movements from his first opera The Nose form an entire orchestral suite. The programme concludes with Mark Fitz-Gerald's reconstruction of the March of the Anarchists, transcribed by ear from the film The Vyborg Side.