This here is the first ever complete recording of the published film score by Dmitry Shostakovich! Written in the early 1960s for Kozintsev's film (which won several film festival prizes), this score was used for a number of ballets based on Hamlet, and includes music not used in the final cut of the film! The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra brings the music fully to life.

Tracklist:

Overture (Suite, No. 1)
Military Music
Fanfares
The Palace Ball (Suite, No. 2)
Story Of Horatio And The Ghost
The Ball
The Ghost (Suite, No. 3)
Hamlet's Parting From Ophelia
Palace Music
Arrival Of The Players (Suite, No. 6)
Monologue (What A Rogue And Peasant Slave)
Hamlet's Monologue (To Be Or Not To Be)
Royal Fanfare
In The Garden (Suite, No. 4)
Booth Fanfare
Poisoning Scene (Suite, No. 5)
The Flutes Play
Ophelia's Descent Into Madness (Song Of Ophelia)
Ophelia's Insanity
Death Of Ophelia (Suite, No. 7)
Hamlet At Ophelia's Grave
The Cemetery
The Duel/The Death Of Hamlet/Hamlet's Funeral (Suite, No. 8)

UPC: 747313244621
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 6.15.04
Format: CD

Dmitri Yablonsky - Hamlet (CD)