Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton - Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites...

Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton - Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 68:52 minutes | 1,16 GB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download
Dmitri Shostakovich was the most versatile of composers: popular and serious styles came to him with equal ease and are frequently found together in the same work. In his twenties, before the heavy hand of Soviet officialdom slapped him down in 1936, music of every kind poured out of him: symphonies, operas and full-length ballets but also a great amount of music for film and theatre. Here Andrew Litton leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a programme which explores this lighter side of a composer who is otherwise often regarded as unrelentingly serious.

The disc opens with Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1, which Litton conducts from the piano. Consisting of three brief movements, it is the only truly original work on the disc, written in 1934 for a competition aimed at making 'Soviet Jazz' more respectable. The remaining suites are all reworkings of existing music, such as the ballets The Age of Gold - about the adventures of a Soviet football team visiting the decadent West - and The Limpid Stream, portraying a group of entertainers visiting an idyllic collective farm. The Suite for Variety Orchestra is a compilation that the composer made in the late 1950s from three film scores, a ballet movement and four piano pieces. Closing the disc is Shostakovich's 1927 orchestration of a Broadway classic, Vincent Youmans' Tea for Two, which had become a hit under the title Tahiti Trot.

Tracklist:
1. Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1: I. Waltz (02:22)
2. Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1: II. Polka (01:42)
3. Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1: III. Foxtrot (03:55)
4. Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): I. Introduction (04:15)
5. Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): II. Adagio (09:50)
6. Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): III. Polka (02:16)
7. Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): IV. Dance (02:17)
8. Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): I. Waltz (02:31)
9. Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): II. Russian Popular Dance (02:12)
10. Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): III. Gallop (01:50)
11. Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): IV. Adagio (07:07)
12. Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): V. Pizzicato (01:18)
13. Suite for Variety Orchestra: I. March (03:01)
14. Suite for Variety Orchestra: II. Dance No. 1 (02:56)
15. Suite for Variety Orchestra: III. Dance No. 2 (03:14)
16. Suite for Variety Orchestra: IV. Little Polka (02:06)
17. Suite for Variety Orchestra: V. Lyric Waltz (02:16)
18. Suite for Variety Orchestra: VI. Waltz No. 1 (03:21)
19. Suite for Variety Orchestra: VII. Waltz No. 2 (03:39)
20. Suite for Variety Orchestra: VIII. Finale (02:03)
21. Tahiti Trot, Op. 16 (04:30)

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log date: 2022-03-29 18:51:18

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Analyzed: Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton / Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -6.18 dB -25.32 dB 2:23 01-Shostakovich: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1: I. Waltz
DR11 -10.13 dB -25.98 dB 1:43 02-Shostakovich: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1: II. Polka
DR12 -0.88 dB -19.99 dB 3:55 03-Shostakovich: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1: III. Foxtrot
DR15 -0.40 dB -21.13 dB 4:16 04-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): I. Introduction
DR13 -2.20 dB -22.61 dB 9:50 05-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): II. Adagio
DR16 -3.50 dB -27.11 dB 2:17 06-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): III. Polka
DR14 -0.70 dB -18.87 dB 2:18 07-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Age of Gold", Op. 22a (1935 Version): IV. Dance
DR13 -3.24 dB -22.23 dB 2:32 08-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): I. Waltz
DR14 -7.28 dB -26.37 dB 2:13 09-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): II. Russian Popular Dance
DR15 -2.75 dB -23.53 dB 1:51 10-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): III. Gallop
DR17 -0.58 dB -24.34 dB 7:07 11-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): IV. Adagio
DR13 -11.65 dB -33.40 dB 1:19 12-Shostakovich: Suite from "The Limpid Stream", Op. 39a (Arr. K. Titarenko for Orchestra): V. Pizzicato
DR12 -3.58 dB -18.56 dB 3:02 13-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: I. March
DR14 -2.00 dB -19.11 dB 2:57 14-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: II. Dance No. 1
DR12 -7.57 dB -23.78 dB 3:15 15-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: III. Dance No. 2
DR15 -3.16 dB -23.65 dB 2:06 16-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: IV. Little Polka
DR11 -5.32 dB -20.42 dB 2:17 17-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: V. Lyric Waltz
DR13 -3.39 dB -20.29 dB 3:21 18-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: VI. Waltz No. 1
DR12 -4.54 dB -20.76 dB 3:39 19-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: VII. Waltz No. 2
DR12 -1.64 dB -18.33 dB 2:04 20-Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra: VIII. Finale
DR15 -0.58 dB -24.89 dB 4:30 21-Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot, Op. 16
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Number of tracks: 21
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2287 kbps
Codec: FLAC


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