Shostakovich: Girl Friends / Rule, Britannia / Salute To Spain - CD

Dmitri Shostakovich

Podrugi (Girl Friends), Op. 41a (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald) (1935)

 

1. Introduction (opening credits)

00:03:04

 

2. The Year 1914: The workers' residential block and factory gates

00:02:08

 

3. The families wait for the strikers to return

00:03:38

 

4. The Inn of the Keys to Happiness

00:02:26

 

5. The children attempt to sing their poppy song (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:02:56

 

6. By the river: Revolutionary song Zamuchen tiazheloi nevolei (Tormented by a Lack of Freedom) (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:00:52

 

7. Fanfare (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:00:27

 

8. The story of Silych's son, Ivan

00:02:16

 

9. Zamuchen tiazheloi nevolei (Tormented by a Lack of Freedom) (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:05:12

 

10. The Year 1919, Russian Civil War - Fanfare and Organ Voluntary (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:37

 

11. Internationale: The girls leave for war (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:02:03

 

12. The girls attend to the wounded soldiers on the battlefield (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:47

 

13. Alla Marcia: The town of Pushkin has been taken by the enemy (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:09

 

14. Internationale: The girls and the wounded soldiers retreat by train

00:01:46

 

15. Zoya in the snowy forest (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:47

 

16. The Forester's Hut

00:02:51

 

17. Fanfare: Andrei arrives with news from the front (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:00:29

 

18. Fanfare (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:00:46

 

19. The girls find a chicken

00:01:56

 

20. Natasha and Zoya sing a nostalgic song, Gde eti tyoplie nochi (Where are those warm nights?) (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:49

 

21. Natasha and Zoya are rescued (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:42

 

22. Fanfare: Andrei and Senka arrive (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:00:40

 

23. Andrei's closing words

00:03:12

Prav', Britaniya (Rule, Britannia), Op. 28 (arr. M.Fitz-Gerald) (1931)

 

24. Internationale

00:01:43

 

25. Infantry March

00:01:50

 

26. Along the Soviet Route

00:01:07

 

27. Protest (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:02:28

 

28. Raising the Banner

00:00:37

 

29. The Banners Flap in the Wind

00:01:00

Salyut, Ispaniya (Salute to Spain), Op. 44 (1936)

 

30. Fanfare I

00:00:15

 

31. March of the Officers

00:01:37

 

32. Fanfare II

00:00:10

 

33. Anon.: A las barricadas! (To the Barricades!) (arranged by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:17

 

34. Song of Rosita

00:02:35

 

35. Fanfare III

00:00:13

 

36. attrib. I. S. Aturov: Po dolinam i po vzgor'yam (Along the valleys and over the hills) (arranged by M. Fitz-Gerald)

00:01:08

 

37. Reminiscence of the Song of Rosita

00:00:56

 

38. Lucia's Funeral March

00:02:42

Symphonic Movement (1st version of Symphony no. 9) (1945)

 

39. Symphonic Fragment (1st version of Symphony no. 9)

00:06:42