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Hamlet & King Lear

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Label
Signum Classics
Katalognummer
SIGCD 052
EAN / Barcode
0635212005224
Erscheinungsdatum
31 August 2004
In his youth Shostakovich devoted much time and energy to composing for the theatre and the cinema, writing for an astonishing variety of movies, political plays, satires, the music-hall and the ballet. The music for Nikolai Akimov’s outrageous and scandalous production of Hamlet was composed in the winter of 1931 – 1932. Akimov had decided that tragedy was irrelevant to the modern Soviet audience, and therefore presented the play as a satirical farce in which the play was turned up-side-down, by reversing all the usual assumptions about the plot and how it should be acted. The alterations to Shakespeare’s work are reflected in the titles of several of Shostakovich’s numbers. He was asked to provide music for scenes that Shakespeare only refers to but which Akimov insisted on representing on stage, for example the feast where "funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables". The overall character of Shostakovich’s music is often abrasive and satirical, and flippant just where we would expect the music to be more serious. There are also some funny moments, with particular sharp parodies of various well-known musico-theatrical clichés. In 1954 Kozintsev had also attempted to direct a staged version of Hamlet. For this occasion he decided to reuse music that Shostakovich had already written for him to use in a staged production of King Lear in 1941. All that Kozintsev asked Shostakovich to add for the 1954 Hamlet were a Gigue and a Finale, both of which are included on this recording as an appendix to the music for Akimov’s 1932 production. The music that Shostakovich wrote for Kozintsev’s 1941 King Lear production inhabits a strange and transitional world, halfway between the bright and brilliant sarcasm of the music for Akimov’s Hamlet of ten years earlier and the more soberly functional manner of his post-war theatrical music. Gone is most of the cheekiness, the fondness for the experimental and the grotesque. There is much in this often oppressively dark music that is characteristic of what was by now Shostakovich’s public symphonic manner. Perhaps the most powerful and unusual part of the score is the bizarre cycle of Fool’s songs, with which the Fool mocks the mistakes of his master, the King, in the course of the first three Acts. The music of these songs is as strange and quirky as the words they set. Taken as a whole, these ten songs make up a miniature cycle of sourly absurd, almost expressionistic outbursts for voice and orchestra.
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  1. 01 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act I - i. Prelude and night patrol; ii. Sheph 03:08
  2. 02 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act I - i. Funeral March; ii. Exit of the King 02:05
  3. 03 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act I - Dinner Music 01:37
  4. 04 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act I - i. Flourish and dance music; ii. Final 02:35
  5. 05 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act II - i. Hamlet and the small boys walking 01:00
  6. 06 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act II - Hamlet and Rosencrantz's scene 00:44
  7. 07 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act II - i. The actors' arrival; ii. Exit of P 00:50
  8. 08 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act II - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's dialog 00:51
  9. 09 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act II - The Hunt 01:48
  10. 10 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - The guests' entrance 01:16
  11. 11 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - The tuning of the instruments 00:56
  12. 12 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - Prelude 00:40
  13. 13 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - Love scene of the Player-King and Pl 00:28
  14. 14 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - i. The poisoner's entrance; ii. Pois 01:28
  15. 15 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - i. "And thou shalt live…."; ii. "Nor 02:07
  16. 16 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - i. Scene with a recorder; ii. Episod 00:47
  17. 17 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - Pantomime 01:05
  18. 18 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act III - i. Hamlet carries off the body of Po 01:16
  19. 19 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - i. The King distracts the Queen; ii. 01:01
  20. 20 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - i. The King is brought on; ii. Claudi 01:38
  21. 21 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - Fortinbras' trumpet calls 00:38
  22. 22 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - The Feast 01:33
  23. 23 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - Romance sung at the feast 01:33
  24. 24 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - Can-can 01:14
  25. 25 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - Ophelia's ditty 01:43
  26. 26 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act IV - Lullaby 01:23
  27. 27 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act V - i. Introduction to the graveyard scene 01:23
  28. 28 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act V - i. The beggars passing by; ii. Requiem 03:29
  29. 29 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act V - i. Joust; ii. Flourish; iii. Quick fig 02:37
  30. 30 Hamlet Op. 32 - 1932 Production - Act V - Fortinbras' march 02:04
  31. 31 Hamlet - 1954 Production: Gigue 01:37
  32. 32 Hamlet - 1954 Production: Finale 01:34
  33. 33 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: Prelude and Cordelia's ballad 04:44
  34. 34 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The return from the hunt 00:49
  35. 35 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - i. 1. He who decides 01:36
  36. 36 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - i. 4. The hedge-spar 01:22
  37. 37 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - i. 6. When priests a 02:42
  38. 38 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - i. 9. He that has an 02:50
  39. 39 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - Finale of Act I 01:25
  40. 40 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - The approach of the 01:29
  41. 41 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - The scene on the hea 02:03
  42. 42 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - The blinding of Glou 00:59
  43. 43 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - i. The military enca 02:46
  44. 44 King Lear Op. 58a - 1941 Production: The Fool's ten songs - March 02:09

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