Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz feat. Mark Fitz-Gerald - Shostakovich: The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a & Love and Hate, Op. 38 (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 262 MB | Tracks: 38 | 58:53 min
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos
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 firemans bands and American dance music. Illustrated by Shostakovichs 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.