Waltz No. 2
The waltz no. 2 is a set of the Suite for Variety Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich in a danceable three-quarter time. In many recordings the suite is wrongly equated with Shostakovich's currently partially lost suite for jazz orchestra No. 2 . The popular piece is often performed individually and has also been used as a film score.
history
It is not known exactly when Shostakovich composed this piece. Music research, however, agreed on the early 1950s. Waltz No. 2 first appeared in a sequence of the Soviet film Первый эшелон (The First Season) by Mikhail Kalatosow from 1956, for which Shostakovich wrote the score. In his catalog that music has the figure op. 99a . Later arranged and compiled it several older pieces, including this waltz along with two other, the lyrical waltz and waltzes no. 1 , for use today Suite for Variety Orchestra , in the form but only in 1988 by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction was premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich .
In 1994, André Rieu and his orchestra recorded the waltz as The Second Waltz for the CD Strauss & Co , which stayed in the German album charts for 103 weeks from 1995 . Waltz No. 2 is often played in André Rieu's concerts. There is also one of Karel Gott sung version with the Rieu Orchestra on the text Sunday in the Park by Michael Kunze .
The waltz no. 2 is known worldwide and was again used as film music, is especially noteworthy Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut in 1999. Also in 2013 released film Nymphomaniac by Lars von Trier , the piece appears.
Due to its popularity and relatively easy playability, the waltz is a popular piece for musicians who want to throw a flash mob . So was Walzer Nr. 2 in the Spanish cities of Pontevedra and Plasencia , and at the airport of Bucharest listed.
Musical structure
The waltz consists of around 200 bars in the ¾ time typical for danceable waltzes, is written in the key of C minor and the matching parallel key in E flat major and contains three melodic themes . The composer chooses an Allegretto poco moderato (not a bit moderate quickly) as the tempo and specifies 178 as the value for the metronome . The quarter note should be struck 178 times per minute. After an introduction of four bars, in which the bassoon and the strings, supported by light drum rolls on beats two and three, set the dance rhythm, the first theme in C minor, which extends over 32 bars, is initially played by the alto saxophone as a soloist. then accompanied by the other wind instruments. The swinging accompaniment that is typical of the waltz is now provided by the strings plucking their instruments . After a brief transition, the theme is repeated, but now the strings carry the melody and the winds accompany. The second theme in E flat major extends over 15 bars and is also repeated, again with a change in the melody. Likewise, in the third theme, saxophones and strings play the melody with 16 bars and are in turn replaced by the other winds in the repetition. At the end of the composition, the opening theme sounds again in C minor, this time performed by a solo trombone. The last repetition is then performed as a loud tutti with pronounced drum and timpani accompaniment and leads to the final chord introduced by the harps with a glissando . Depending on the interpretation, the waltz takes a good three and a half minutes.
Instrumentation
The score published by the music publisher Universal Edition in the arrangement of Levon Atowmjan provides for a very extensive orchestra as instrumentation for the waltz in the 1956 film music:
3 flutes (3rd piccolo), 3 oboes , three clarinets in Bb, three alto saxophones in Eb, three bassoons (3rd contrabassoon ), four horns in F, three trumpets in Bb, three trombones , tuba , timpani , percussion ( cymbals , Tambourine , xylophone , glockenspiel , vibraphone , triangle ), two harps , piano , celesta , strings .
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Excerpt from the film Первый эшелон on YouTube
- ^ André Rieu - Strauss & Co. In: Ciscogs. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
- ↑ André Rieu. In: Official German Charts. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Karel Gott: Between Two Worlds: My Life. riva, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86883-400-0 , p. 215 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ The Second Waltz - Sunday in the Park lyrics. In: Songtexte.com. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
- ↑ 2013 video on YouTube
- ↑ Video from 2015 on YouTube
- ↑ [Official] Flash Mob at Bucharest International Henri Coanda Airport by Bucharest Symphony Orchestra on YouTube , accessed on February 15, 2018.
- ↑ Dmitri Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra (= New Collected Works of Dmitri Shostakovich. Volume 33.) Dmitri Shostakovich Publishers (DSCH), Moscow 2001, OCLC 873421914 (score)
- ↑ Universal Edition website with instrumentation