wimpel69
11-12-2017, 03:08 PM
This is my own album. Please do not share any further. You will find the mp3 link below.
If you want the FLAC link, please request it in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
As a bonus, you'll get the classic recording of The Gadfly Suite, conducted by
Emin Khachaturian for Melodiya/EMI, also in FLAC.
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy during a turbulent period of pre-Unification political unrest,
THE GADFLY (Ovod) drew from Shostakovich one of his most dazzling and popular film scores,
heard hitherto on record only in a suite arranged and re-orchestrated by Levon Atovmian. This recording
presents the full, original score for the first time, as closely as possible to Shostakovich’s original
conception. Reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from the original manuscript and the Russian film
soundtrack, it calls for a large orchestra including church bells, an organ, two guitars and a mandolin,
all excluded from the Atovmian suite.
The excerpts from The Counterplan, which marked the fifteenth anniversary of the 1917 Revolution,
include the infectious hit-tune "The Song of the Counterplan".
Music Composed by
Dmitri Shostakovich
Played by the
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
With the
Bachchor Mainz
Reconstructed & Conducted by
Mark Fitz-Gerald
"This is the world premiere recording of the complete music Shostakovich wrote for the film, The Gadfly, now reconstructed
from his original score by Mark Fitz-Gerald. It was the composer’s own wish that Levon Atovmyan made a suite for use in the
concert hall, but in so doing he changed the order in which the music appeared in the film and linked short sections together
with his own music. Then, to make it even more attractive to orchestras, he re-orchestrated Shostakovich’s score leaving out
some instruments and deleting the use of a chorus. Looking at it from Atovmian’s point of view, he had created a short suite
of twelve sections, and his work entered into the composer’s official output and was often performed in its English translation,
The Gadfly. Now, for the first time, the original film score has resurfaced in a reconstruction by the musicologist and conductor,
Mark Fitz-Gerald. By the composer’s own admission it had been written in 1955 purely for much needed income, and he simply
translated the film’s action into descriptive music. In the end it consisted of twenty-nine ‘bits and pieces’, mostly quite short,
the total score lasting around fifty minutes. The story was set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy where a love story become
interwoven into the political scene that surrounds them, the idealist and patriot, Arthur, one of the two lovers—who became
known as Ovod (The Gadfly)—eventually executed by those opposed to Italian independence. To flesh out his score, Atovmian
used sections as if it were thematic material that he could then repeat, the romantic violin solo, that comes early in the film,
becoming, in his hands, one of Shostakovich’s most famous melodies. Two sections that were never used in the film are
here added as ‘additional tracks’. The disc is completed by three tracks from the 1933 film, The Counterplan, used to
celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Using the tempos heard in the film of The Gad-fly,
Fitz-Gerald obtains committed and fine playing from the Rheinland-Pfalz orchestra in a 2017 German radio recording."
David’s Review Corner
Source: Naxos CD (My album)
Format: FLAC/mp3(320), DDD Stereo
File Sizes: 239 MB (FLAC), 148 MB (mp3) / Bonus: 212 MB
Download (mp3) - ... is gone!
This is my own album. Please do not share any further. You will find the mp3 link above.
If you want the FLAC link, please request it in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
As a bonus, you'll get the classic recording of The Gadfly Suite, conducted by
Emin Khachaturian for Melodiya/EMI, also in FLAC.
Bonus album
Please add to my reputation if you download my material! Thank you!
If you want the FLAC link, please request it in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
As a bonus, you'll get the classic recording of The Gadfly Suite, conducted by
Emin Khachaturian for Melodiya/EMI, also in FLAC.
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy during a turbulent period of pre-Unification political unrest,
THE GADFLY (Ovod) drew from Shostakovich one of his most dazzling and popular film scores,
heard hitherto on record only in a suite arranged and re-orchestrated by Levon Atovmian. This recording
presents the full, original score for the first time, as closely as possible to Shostakovich’s original
conception. Reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from the original manuscript and the Russian film
soundtrack, it calls for a large orchestra including church bells, an organ, two guitars and a mandolin,
all excluded from the Atovmian suite.
The excerpts from The Counterplan, which marked the fifteenth anniversary of the 1917 Revolution,
include the infectious hit-tune "The Song of the Counterplan".
Music Composed by
Dmitri Shostakovich
Played by the
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
With the
Bachchor Mainz
Reconstructed & Conducted by
Mark Fitz-Gerald
"This is the world premiere recording of the complete music Shostakovich wrote for the film, The Gadfly, now reconstructed
from his original score by Mark Fitz-Gerald. It was the composer’s own wish that Levon Atovmyan made a suite for use in the
concert hall, but in so doing he changed the order in which the music appeared in the film and linked short sections together
with his own music. Then, to make it even more attractive to orchestras, he re-orchestrated Shostakovich’s score leaving out
some instruments and deleting the use of a chorus. Looking at it from Atovmian’s point of view, he had created a short suite
of twelve sections, and his work entered into the composer’s official output and was often performed in its English translation,
The Gadfly. Now, for the first time, the original film score has resurfaced in a reconstruction by the musicologist and conductor,
Mark Fitz-Gerald. By the composer’s own admission it had been written in 1955 purely for much needed income, and he simply
translated the film’s action into descriptive music. In the end it consisted of twenty-nine ‘bits and pieces’, mostly quite short,
the total score lasting around fifty minutes. The story was set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy where a love story become
interwoven into the political scene that surrounds them, the idealist and patriot, Arthur, one of the two lovers—who became
known as Ovod (The Gadfly)—eventually executed by those opposed to Italian independence. To flesh out his score, Atovmian
used sections as if it were thematic material that he could then repeat, the romantic violin solo, that comes early in the film,
becoming, in his hands, one of Shostakovich’s most famous melodies. Two sections that were never used in the film are
here added as ‘additional tracks’. The disc is completed by three tracks from the 1933 film, The Counterplan, used to
celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Using the tempos heard in the film of The Gad-fly,
Fitz-Gerald obtains committed and fine playing from the Rheinland-Pfalz orchestra in a 2017 German radio recording."
David’s Review Corner
Source: Naxos CD (My album)
Format: FLAC/mp3(320), DDD Stereo
File Sizes: 239 MB (FLAC), 148 MB (mp3) / Bonus: 212 MB
Download (mp3) - ... is gone!
This is my own album. Please do not share any further. You will find the mp3 link above.
If you want the FLAC link, please request it in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
As a bonus, you'll get the classic recording of The Gadfly Suite, conducted by
Emin Khachaturian for Melodiya/EMI, also in FLAC.
Bonus album
Please add to my reputation if you download my material! Thank you!