Shostakovich - The Bolt (complete)
Shostakovich - The Bolt (complete)
又名: 肖斯塔科维奇：芭蕾《螺钉》
表演者: Gennedy Rozhdestvensky/Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
专辑类型: Doppel-CD
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1995-03-14
唱片数: 2
出版者: Chandos
条形码: 0095115934326
专辑简介
The glare of all the talk about Shostakovich's subversive struggle against Stalinist shackles somewhat blinds us to the fact that it wasn't always so. He wrote his three-act ballet The Bolt in 1930-1, when he was still bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and revelling in the brave new world of Soviet artistic freedom, ready to try his hand at anything from symphony to circus. The ballet's about a worker getting back at his former employers, after he and his cronies are sacked for being drunk, by persuading an operator to drop a bolt into his lathe. At the eleventh hour the operator has a rush of conscience, blows the gaff, and the saboteur is arrested (quite right, too). The Bolt, which hereabouts would have been entitled “The Spanner”, is exemplary Soviet Realism - top-drawer music-hall farce, a Red response to Les Six at their most outrageous, in which Shostakovich's already scathing wit is directed at the despised petits-bourgeois. The technique, though, is the very same that would soon find far more serious application.
In 1931, Shostakovich extracted an orchestral suite of eight numbers. Following its first performance a couple of years later, he revised it for publication, removing the Dance of the Colonial Woman Slave and The Appeaser altogether, and substituting less contentious titles for the remainder, so maybe he'd already felt the first chill of the winds of change.
曲目
Schlu?tanz und Apotheose