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Background: Commissioned to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1932, Orango tells the fantastical story of a human-ape hybrid, who, through a combination of sleazy journalism, stock-exchange swindles and blackmail, rises to become a ruthless newspaper baron. Because of its explosive political and musical content, Shostakovich left Orango unfinished. The score remained forgotten until 2004, when a 13 page piano score was found in Moscow.

At the request of the composer's widow, Gerald McBurney orchestrated the Prologue to Shostakovich's lost opera. Its World Premiere took place at Walt Disney Hall on December 2nd, 2011, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

On a Mahlerian scale and ranging from the darkest tragedy to dreamlike sequences of music-hall and silent-film music, Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony is one of his most dramatic and revolutionary symphonic works. Forced by austere Soviet authorities to withdraw the radical symphony shortly before its premiere, the work was first heard in public over twenty five years later, when the composer is reported to have said, 'I think in many ways the Fourth is greater than my later symphonic efforts'.

The booklet contains essays by orchestrator Gerald McBurney, who tells the story of Orango's rediscovery, and by renowned iconoclast director, Peter Sellars, who staged the work at its long-awaited Los Angeles premiere .

CATALOGUE NR: 4790249
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 16-Jun-2012

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich
TRACKS: Prologue to Orango. Symphony Number 4 in C minor Opus 43.
ORCHESTRA: Los Angeles Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Esa Pekka Salonen

- Oct-2012 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Oct-2012 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Salonen turns his musical intellect on the extraordinary Fourth, achieving the kind of skewed logic that some merely hint at.'

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