The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Russian: Сюита для джазового оркестра №2) is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of …

The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 (commonly known as Jazz Suite No. 1) by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1934. [1] The suite has three movements: It is scored for 3 saxophones …

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote symphonies and string quartets with violent and intense music. But he did have a sense of humour as well. Just as he could handle the very un-Russian jazz idiom. …

The "Real" Jazz Suite No. 2 Composed in Leningrad, summer-early autumn 1938 Commissioned by the USSR State Jazz Orchestra...more.

Waltz II · Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra · Riccardo Chailly · Dmitri Shostakovich Shostakovich: The Jazz Album ℗ 1992 Decca Music Group Limited Released on: 1993-01-01 Producer: …

Shostakovich was most definitely a light-and-shade composer. On the one hand, we have the intense, expansive orchestral works, full of grand political gestures and complex musical …

From 1934, the First Jazz Suite vividly brings a smoky Soviet jazz club to the mind’s eye, with its wailing solo trumpet and parody mandolin. At the same time, the distilled invention of the three …

2002年9月1日 · Shostakovich’s first “Jazz Suite” was written in 1934 for a Leningrad competition designed to encourage composers in this task. It is not jazz. It is completely without rhythmic …

In 1938, following his First Jazz Suite of 4 years earlier, Shostakovich wrote a second Suite, on the model of his successful first one, but this time scored for a bigger band. Although it was …

2022年4月1日 · The disc opens with Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1, which Litton conducts from the piano. Consisting of three brief movements, it is the only truly original work on the disc, …