Suite for jazz orchestra No. 2
The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a composition by Dmitri Shostakovich .
history
The suite was written in 1938 for the newly founded Soviet State Jazz Orchestra under Viktor Knuschewitzki and was premiered on November 28, 1938 in Moscow . The score was lost in the turmoil of World War II .
After another work by Shostakovich, the suite for vaudeville orchestra , was temporarily incorrectly identified as Jazz Suite No. 2 in 1988 , a piano reduction of three movements of the work was found in 1999 . Since the original score remains missing, the British composer created Gerard McBurney at the request of Shostakovich's widow a reconstructed orchestration of the suite, on September 9, 2000 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Davis as part of the Proms concerts in London premiered .
Despite this rediscovery, most CD recordings and the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut (1999) incorrectly name the suite for variety orchestra as Jazz Suite No. 2 .
sentences
- Scherzo (Allegretto alla marcia)
- Lullaby (Andante)
- Serenade (Allegretto)
See also
literature
- Laurel Fay: Shostakovich. A life. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-513438-9 , p. 113 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Elizabeth Wilson: Shostakovich - A Life Remembered. 2nd edition. Faber & Faber, London 2006 ISBN 0-5712-2050-9 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Suite for jazz orchestra No. 2 from Music Sales (English)
- Annotated catalog raisonné by the music publisher Sikorski (English; PDF; 2.4 MB)
- First performance of the reconstructed version at the Last Night of the Proms on September 9, 2000 (youtube)