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Composer:
Dmitri Shostakovich

Artist(s):
Dimitri Kharitonov

Conductor:
Mark Elder

Background: Hypothetically Murdered is one of the curiosities of Shostakovich's youth, mixing vaudeville and circus theatre. The 1931 show, featuring the founder of the Tea-Jazz Ensemble, Leonid Utyosov, was billed as a 'Light Music Circus Entertainment in 3 Acts', not exactly a testimony of serious art from a composer best known for his tragedy-laden symphonies.

McBurney's orchestration is magnificent; the sound certainly consistent with the composer's works of that period. The original score was lost during the Leningrad siege, but a piano score survives. The popular Suite for Jazz Orchestra No.1 was written early in 1934. This delightful, highly ironic music is a continuation of the spirit of laughter and adventure that had earlier led Shostakovich to work with the great Utiosov on Hypothetically Murdered.

As with most 'Soviet Jazz' of the period there is not much jazz here, more of a feeling of operetta and cabaret music and also of Jewish songs. Despite such jollity there is always an undertone of depth and darkness, of real sadness and foreboding underlying the sentimentality and parody.

CATALOGUE NR: SIGCD051
RECORD LABEL: Signum Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 11-Oct-2004

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich
TITLE: Hypothetically Murdered
TRACKS: Hypothetically Murdered op.31a Orchestral Suite. Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin op.46. Five Fragments op.42. Suite No.1 for Jazz Band sans op.E
ORCHESTRA: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Mark Elder
ARTISTS: Dimitri Kharitonov      

- Nov-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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