One beneficiary of a trend to give film music more respect is Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the great symphonic composers of all time, who also wrote nearly fifty film scores. While many of these were for flat out cinematic propaganda hack-work, he wrote surprising good music even for films of that sort, and outstanding music for films that he could get into.Eight films are represented on this superb collection. The seriousness this music deserves is betokened by the artists participating in it: Riccardo ...
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One beneficiary of a trend to give film music more respect is Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the great symphonic composers of all time, who also wrote nearly fifty film scores. While many of these were for flat out cinematic propaganda hack-work, he wrote surprising good music even for films of that sort, and outstanding music for films that he could get into.Eight films are represented on this superb collection. The seriousness this music deserves is betokened by the artists participating in it: Riccardo Chailly conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, one of the top ten symphony orchestras of the world.Four of the films (The Counterplan, The Great Citizen, Pirogov, and to a lesser extend Alone) are films of the propaganda type. Counterplan resulted in Shostakovich's most popular tune, The Greeting Song, which has virtually become a Russian folk tune. On the other hand, Hamlet, the Gadfly, The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse, and Sofya Perovskaya are films of high...
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