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Shostakovich was still a young composer when he was hired to provide incidental music for The Bedbug, a surreal and farcical satire on Communist utopian dreams and bourgeois corruption and vulgarity. He produced a terrifically knockabout score that draws on local fireman’s bands and American dance music. Illustrated by Shostakovich’s powerful middle-period music, Love and Hate is a film about female fortitude set in a mining village during the 1919 Civil War. The innovative score, newly reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from rough piano sketches and the 1935 soundtrack, combines symphonic sections with popular songs.
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Reviews
“The young Shostakovich's incidental music for Mayakovsky's farcical play proves a delight.” ****
Angus McPherson – Limelightmagazine.com.au – 17 March 2020
**** Excellent Album
Jeremie Cahen - Classica magazine (France) - March 2020
“Two world premieres here, but it’s the colourful and comedic incidental music for 1929 play The Bedbug which stands out …” ****
Michael Beek - BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) - February 2020
“…The stage music for The Bedbug was composed for a surreal and grotesque satire about communist utopias as well as bourgeois corruption and vulgarity by Vladimir Mayakovsky. This composition with marches, foxtrot, waltzes and a firefighter choir is absolutely brilliant and bristles with grandiose ideas. The excellent performances – premiere recordings, of course – make Shostakovich’s music very lively and attractive.” ****
Norbert Tischer – Pizzicato.lu – 27 November 2019
“…These pieces (it has to be admitted) are hardly major finds, but they still have a modest piquant value for the followers of the composer. Shostakovich was still young when hired to provide incidental music for The Bedbug, a surreal and farcical satire on Communist utopian dreams and bourgeois corruption and vulgarity. The score, newly reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from rough piano sketches and the 1935 soundtrack, combines symphonic sections with popular songs.”
Barry Forshaw – ClassicalCDChoice.co.uk – 14 November 2019
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