Shostakovich - Film Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Shostakovich was still a young composer when he was hired to provide incidental music for The Bedbug, a surreal and farcical satire on Communist utopian dreams and bourgeois corruption and vulgarity. He produced a terrifically knockabout score that draws on local fireman's bands and American dance music. Illustrated by Shostakovich's powerful middle-period music, Love and Hate is a film about female fortitude set in a mining village during the 1919 Civil War. The innovative score, newly reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from rough piano sketches and the 1935 soundtrack, combines symphonic sections with popular songs. Album Tracks 1. The Bedbug, Op. 19 (1929) 2. Part One - the Year 1929 3. Part Two - Fifty Years Later The Year 1979 4. Love and Hate, Op. 38 (1935) 5. Love and Hate, Op. 38 (1935)