FULL SONG OF THE FORESTS (Shostakovich) Astrakhan 2021 Egor Zhuravsky, Timofey Vershinin

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Song of the Forests  
• Composer: Shostakovich Dmitri  
• Libretto: Yevgeny Dolmatovsky  
• Venue & Opera Company: Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theater, Russia  
• Recorded: February 7, 2021
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Egor Zhuravsky, Timofey Vershinin
• Conductor: Valery Voronin  
• Orchestra: Orchestra of the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theater  
• Chorus: Chorus of the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theater  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theater  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Programme
  Shostakovich Symphony No.5
  Shostakovich Song of the Forests

  The Song of the Forests (Песнь о лесах), Op. 81, is an oratorio by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in the summer of 1949. It was written to celebrate the forestation of the Russian steppes (Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature) following the end of World War II. The composition originally included texts by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky praising Joseph Stalin as the “great gardener”; these references were eliminated after his death. Premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 15 November 1949, the work was well received by the government, earning the composer a Stalin Prize the following year.

  The oratorio lasts around 40 minutes and is written in seven movements:

  When the War Was Over
  The Call Rings Throughout the Land
  Memory of the Past
  The Pioneers Plant the Forests
  The Fighters of Stalingrad Forge Onward
  A Walk into the Future
  Glory

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