Dimitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)

Suite de l'opéra "Lady Macbeth du district de Mzensk" (1932)

excerpts selected by the composer, for orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1932
    • Duration: 26 mn
    • Publisher: Le Chant du Monde
    • Opus: 29a
Detailed formation
  • 3 flutes (also piccolo), 3 oboes (also English horn), 4 clarinets (also Eb clarinet, bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 2 percussionists, 2 harp, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 8 June 2005
    Location:

    Allemagne, Stuttgart


    Performers:

    l'Orchestre symphonique de la Radio de Stuttgart, direction : Andreï Boreyko.

Observations

compilation par le compositeur des entractes entre les scènes 2 et 3, 7 et 8, 6 et 7 (les deux derniers transposés)

Table of contents

  1. Allegro con brio
  2. Presto – Allegretto – Moderato – Presto – Moderato – Presto – Moderato – Adagio – Allegro
  3. Allegretto