Word: shostakovich
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Handel and Haydn Society--Thomas Dunn, director; Sheldon Shkolnik, piano, and Edward Carroll, trumpet; music of Haydn and Shostakovich; Symphony Hall...
Musical Mondays--Pamela Frame, cellist; music of Debussy, Shostakovich and Faure; the French Library in Boston, 53 Marlborough St., Boston...
Handel and Haydn Society--music of Haydn and Shostakovich; Symphony Hall...
...Shostakovich, only 27 at the time of the opera's premiere, set his text with stunning effectiveness, the music by turns tragic and sardonic. Often, as in the seduction scene, the score simply overwhelms the listener with its irresistible force. At other tunes it beguiles, charms and saddens, as in Katerina's aria lamenting the lack of love in her life just before Sergei steals into her bedroom. The police station scene in Act III is a crazily comic interlude evoking some of the more manic moments in The Nose, providing a needed respite and placing the final...
...merely about crime and punishment. The restoration of the third act of Lulu two years ago ensured that the truncated version-which was the way the opera was presented until 1979-would not be heard again. So now will Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk become the standard version of Shostakovich's masterpiece, and Katerina will fade into obscurity, an object for musicological study, not for performance. There is no longer any need to settle for the substitute when one can have the original. -By Michael Walsh