Shostakovich was still a young composer when he was hired to provide incidental music for The Bedbug, a surreal and farcical satire on Communist utopian dreams and bourgeois corruption and vulgarity. He produced a terrifically knockabout score that draws on local fireman's bands and American dance music. Illustrated by Shostakovich's powerful middle-period music, Love and Hate is a film about female fortitude set in a mining village during the 1919 Civil War. The innovative score, newly reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from rough piano sketches and the 1935 soundtrack, combines symphonic sections with popular songs.

Tracklist:

The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": I. March
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": II. Foxtrot (Orch. M. Fitz-Gerald)
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": III. Galop (Orch. M. Fitz-Gerald)
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": IV. Waltz No. 1 (Orch. M. Fitz-Gerald)
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": V. Intermezzo
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": VI. Wedding Scene
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": VII. Fire
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": VIII. Fire Signals
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 1 "The Year 1929": IX. Firemen's Choir
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 2 "50 Years Later, The Year 1979": X. Scene In The Public Garden
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 2 "50 Years Later, The Year 1979": XI. March Of The Pioneers
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 2 "50 Years Later, The Year 1979": XII. Flourish
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 2 "50 Years Later, The Year 1979": XIII. March Of The City Elders
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 2 "50 Years Later, The Year 1979": XIV: Waltz No. 2
The Bedbug Suite, Op. 19a, Pt. 2 "50 Years Later, The Year 1979": XV. Closing March
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 1, Introduction
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 2, Distribution Of Arms
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 3, Interlude No. 1
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 4, How Long Will My Heart Ache And Moan?
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 5, Intermezzo
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 6, Soldiers' March
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 7, March. Scherzando
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 8, How Long Will My Heart Ache And Moan?
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 9, Waltz
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 10, Interlude No. 2
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 11, Morning March
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 12, Drunken Soldier
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 13, Domestic Mayhem
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 14, A Team Of Women
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 15, Soldier's Murder
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 16, Women Go Down The Mine
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 17, Death In The Mines
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 18, The Funeral
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 19, Dramatic Chords
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 20, Passing The Time
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 21, Greeting The Red Army Men
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 22, Fanfare
Love And Hate, Op. 38 (Reconstr. M. Fitz-Gerald): No. 23, Finale

UPC: 747313410071
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 11.8.19
Format: CD

Shostakovich - Film Music (CD)