Favorite Shostakovich ballet

Started by Mirror Image, November 16, 2014, 10:04:39 AM

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Pick your favorite ballet by Shostakovich

The Golden Age, Op. 22
4 (57.1%)
The Bolt, Op. 27
1 (14.3%)
The Limpid Stream, Op. 39
0 (0%)
Bananamitri Bananovich
0 (0%)
Don't know enough about these works to cast a vote
2 (28.6%)

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Voting closed: July 14, 2015, 11:04:39 AM

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Mirror Image

November 16, 2014, 10:04:39 AM
Choose your favorite Shostakovich ballet. :) According to Wikipedia, Shostakovich wrote two other ballets: The Lady and the Hooligan (no year given on their page) and The Dreamers (1975). Does anyone know anything about these works and/or why they haven't been recorded?

Mirror Image

#1
November 16, 2014, 10:12:35 AM
For me, the choice was easy: The Golden Age. Simply an outstanding work with so much strong material. I would say The Bolt is very good as well just not as good as The Golden Age. The Limpid Stream has some good parts but compared to the other ballets, it's much weaker, but still weaker Shostakovich is not a bad thing considering how consistent he was throughout his career.

Lisztianwagner

#2
November 16, 2014, 02:19:45 PM
The Golden Age.
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Mirror Image

#3
November 16, 2014, 02:29:45 PM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on November 16, 2014, 02:19:45 PM
The Golden Age.

Great choice, Ilaria. ;) Have you heard the other two ballets?

Lisztianwagner

#4
November 17, 2014, 06:58:11 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 16, 2014, 02:29:45 PM
Great choice, Ilaria. ;) Have you heard the other two ballets?

Just one of them, I've listened to The Bolt; a very beautiful work.
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Jaakko Keskinen

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May 29, 2015, 04:26:21 AM
The Golden Age.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo
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