Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton - Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 68:52 minutes | 1,16 GB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download
Dmitri Shostakovich was the most versatile of composers: popular and serious styles came to him with equal ease and are frequently found together in the same work. In his twenties, before the heavy hand of Soviet officialdom slapped him down in 1936, music of every kind poured out of him: symphonies, operas and full-length ballets but also a great amount of music for film and theatre. Here Andrew Litton leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a programme which explores this lighter side of a composer who is otherwise often regarded as unrelentingly serious.