Antiformalist Rayok
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Antiformalist Rayok | |
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by Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington, D.C. | |
Conductor | Mstislav Rostropovich |
Performers | Julian Rodescu, Eric Halfvarson, Andrew Wentzel, Jonathan Deutsch, Members of the Choral Arts Society of Washington |
Antiformalist Rayok
The work includes quotations from Andrei Zhdanov's speech at the Conference of the Musicians at the Central Committee of the all-Union Party in Moscow in January 1948. The libretto also incorporates Dmitri Shepilov's speech at the Second Congress of Composers in 1957, in which he mispronounces the name of the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (KorSAkov). In regard to music, there are references to the traditional Georgian folk song "Suliko", Joseph Stalin's favourite song, and the popular Russian folk tunes “Kalinka” and “Kamarinskaya”. It also contains musical excerpts from Tikhon Chrennikov's film music True friends and Robert Planquette's operetta Les cloches de Corneville. In addition, the note sequence D–E♭–C–B, the composer's own monogram based on German note names (D–S–C–H), occurs once in the cantata in a different key.[3]
Antiformalist Rayok was not performed publicly during the composer's lifetime. Nonetheless, Shostakovich planned to publish the work in the early 1960s and had intended Opus No. 114 for it. Particularly, the premiere of Symphony No. 13 “Babi Yar” (1962), which had provoked enormous disapproval among the Soviet leadership of the Communist Party (the symphony's song text denounces the Soviet anti-Semitism of the time), was probably the main reason why Shostakovich had not considered publishing his satirical cantata.[4] Antiformalist Rayok was premiered 14 years after the composer's death in 1989.[5]
Background
Conflicting dates are documented for the composition of Antiformalist Rayok. According to
Its first public performance was on 12 January 1989 conducted by
In 1989, Boris Tishchenko orchestrated the piano part.[9] In the 1990s, Vladimir Milman and Vladimir Spivakov made another orchestral version. This version was recorded in 2003 and released by Capriccio.[10]
References
- ^ Dmitri Shostakovich (PDF). Hamburg: Sikorski Musikverlage Hamburg. 2011. p. 139. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ ISBN 9780810872646.
- S2CID 144845644– via JSTOR.
- ^ Yakubov, Manshir (2000). Shostakovich's Anti-Formalist Rayok. A history of the Work's Composition and its Musical and Literary Sources, in: Shostakovich in Context. Oxford University Press: Rosamund Barett. pp. 135–157.
- ^ a b Sikorski (2011). Dmitri Shostakovich (PDF). Hamburg: Sikorski Musikverlage Hamburg. p. 139. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- ^ Hulme 2010, p. 527.
- S2CID 143904149.
- ^ MacDonald, Ian (2006). The New Shostakovich. London. p. 215.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Schostakowitsch, Dmitri: ANTIFORMALISTISCHER RAJOK. Satirische Kantate für vier Bässe, gemischten Chor und Orchester | Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski".
- ^ "Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a, etc".