Victorious Spring: Two songs
(Siegreicher Frühling: Zwei Lieder) op. 72 (1945)Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, Yevgeni Dolmatovsky (R)
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<ALIGN=LEFT>Incidental music for a concert spectacle to a scenario by Iosef Dobrovolsky, M? Volpin and Nikolai Erdman.
The third and last of Shostakovich’s light-entertainment scores for the Song and Dance Ensemble of the NKVD (the secret police) includes a couple of catchy settings of lyrics by the popular poet Mikhail Svetlov, and a grandiose rewrite of ‘The Internationale’ for chorus and orchestra. Little is known about this show other than the fact that, as with opp.63 and 66, the well-known writer Nikolai Erdman was involved and the director was the film-maker Sergei Yutkevich for whom Shostakovich also wrote several movie-scores.
Note by Gerard McBurney