Title: Shostakovich: Jazz Suites; Ballet Suites; Concertos Artist: Vladimir Spivakov Label: Capriccio Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 845221074603 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-07-04 Number of Discs: 3
Dmitri Shostakovich is first and foremost known for his symphonies and string quartets - works that contain some humor, but even more darkness, brooding, and desolation. But there is the jaunty side of the great composer, too, and nowhere does it come to it's cheerful fore than in these works, the Jazz Suites, the Tahiti Trot, and his Ballet Suites. This set, accompanying Capriccio's boxes of Shostakovich's Symphonies, Film Music, Orchestral Songs, and Chamber Music, is rounded out with two concertos. In the playful Piano Concerto, that humorous side comes through in the many quotations of songs, own works, and Beethoven. Only the grim Violin Concerto, held back, like the 4th Symphony, for fear of retribution, offers no smile.
Tracks: 1.1 Suite for Variety Orchestra~1. March (Giocoso. Alla Marcia) 2.1 Suite from "The Bolt", Op. 271 (Ballet Suite No. 5)~1. Overture (Adagio-Allegro) 3.1 Concerto No. 1 for piano, trumpet and strings, Op. 35~I. Allegretto
