Dmitri Schostakowitsch
The Golden Age
Short instrumentation: 2 2 3 2 - 4 3 3 1 - timp, perc(5), harm, sop.sax, bar, str
Duration: 16'
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2 2 3 soprano sax. 2 - 4 3 3 1 baritone - timp., perc.(4), xyl. - harm. - str.
Schostakowitsch - Das goldene Zeitalter for orchestra
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Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Schostakowitsch: The Golden Age for orchestra - op. 22Orchestration: for orchestra
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Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Schostakowitsch: The Golden Age for orchestra - op. 22Orchestration: for orchestra
Type: Taschenpartitur
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Like Schostakowitsch's first opera, The Nose, so is his first ballet, The Golden Age, music of the twenties: sarcastic, witty, with motoric verve, colorfully orchestrated, a kind of musical grimace. Schostakowitsch chose four movements of the ballet for a suite (16'), whose lasting popularity can also be measured by the number of arrangements - for brass sextet, brass ensemble, brass quintet, etc. The third movement, Polka, is also set as an independent piece - an ideal encore.