Ballet Suites / Festive Overture, Op. 96 / Suite from 'Katerina Ismailova'
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Ballet Suites / Festive Overture, Op. 96 / Suite from 'Katerina Ismailova'
Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi
[ Chandos Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 7 July 2003
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"I've heard no conductor handle this music better than Järvi… These are vibrant, colourful, incisive performances of colourful, cheeky music in first-rate sound."
American Record Guide
'Ive heard no conductor handle this music better than Järvi… These are vibrant, colourful, incisive performances of colourful, cheeky music in first-rate sound.'
American Record Guide
''I've heard no conductor handle this music better than Järvi… These are vibrant, colourful, incisive performances of colourful, cheeky music in first-rate sound.''
American Record Guide
"All in all, then, plenty of 'entertainment' value the playing high on panache...the recording big-boned and open in the Chandos manner"
(Gramophone)
Shostakovich's Ballet Suites contain some of Shostakovich's most vivaciously tuneful and witty music.
These recordings were made during Neeme Järvi's vintage period with the SNO and are notable for the freshness of the playing and brilliance of sound. The couplings include the exciting Festive Overture, as well the substantial Suite from Katerina Ismailova.
These recordings are available at a special price for the first time.
Tracks:
COMPACT DISC ONE
Ballet Suite No. 1 (1949)
Ballet Suite No. 2 (1951)
Ballet Suite No. 3 (1952)
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1947)
COMPACT DISC TWO
Ballet Suite No. 4 (1953)
Ballet Suite No. 5, Op. 27a, from 'The Bolt' (1931)
Suite from 'Katerina Ismailova'
(Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District) (1934/1962)
