SHOSTAKOVICH: Odna (Alone)

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Odna (Alone), Op. 26 (reconstructed by M. Fitz-Gerald) (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Dmitry Shostakovich
Conducted by: Fitz-Gerald Mark
Dmitry Voropaev, tenor
Anna Kiknadze, mezzo-soprano
Betsy MacMillan, RalphLane
David Greenberg, RalphLane
David McGuinness, RalphLane
James Jolly, RalphLane
Rebecca Frith, RalphLane
Chris Norman, RalphLane
Klaus Heyman, RalphLane
Nanae Yoshimura, RalphLane
Sylvain Groud, RalphLane
Rosmunda Pisaroni-Carrara, RalphLane
Lorenzo Biondi, RalphLane
Satomi Fukami, RalphLane
Pierre Monteux, RalphLane
Tatiana Vayntraub, RalphLane
Erkki Kiviranta, RalphLane
Solomon Mikhoels, RalphLane
Debora Iakovlevna Pantofel-Nechetskaia, RalphLane
Pastora Maria Pavan Cruz, RalphLane
Sandile Dikeni, RalphLane
Barbara Buchholz, DanKing
Misha Aleksandrovich, RalphLane
Michiko Hirayama, RalphLane
Frank Cassard, RalphLane
Anna Laura Iongo, RalphLane
Matthias Kaul, RalphLane
Harald Pfeiffer, RalphLane
Silvia Balistreri, RalphLane
Ciro Cascina, RalphLane
Ora Sittner, RalphLane
Santeri Kinnunen, RalphLane
Anitta Juhala-Jolkkonen, RalphLane
Blake Derby, RalphLane
Irina Mataeva, soprano
Kai Lehtinen, RalphLane
Mark van Tongeren, RalphLane
Mihr'un'Nisa Douglass, RalphLane
Shabda Owens, RalphLane
Ulrich Edelmann, violin
Martin Carpentier, RalphLane
Louis-Philippe Marsolais, RalphLane
Ruby Mercer, RalphLane
Victor Borge Rosenbaum, RalphLane
Ken Carpenter, RalphLane
Terry Riley, RalphLane
Vladimir Ashkenazy, RalphLane
Lasse Poysti, RalphLane
Bing Crosby, RalphLane
Einojuhani Rautavaara, RalphLane
Rosa Ponselle, RalphLane


1.   The Beginning (Overture) - 0:53
2.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": Kuzmina wakes - 1:20
3.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": Konchen, konchen tekhnikum - 1:05
4.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": Morning Exercises - 1:27
5.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": March, "The Street" - 0:37
6.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": Kuzmina waits Sobolevsky - 0:42
7.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": Galop - Kakaya horoshaya budet zhizn'! (How Good Life will Be!) - 2:42
8.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": March - 0:45
9.   Reel 1, "Kuzmina in Leningrad": (Original) Introduction - The Cockery Sings: Ostan'sya! (Stay!) - 3:59
10.   Reel 2, "Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher": Office Typewriters - 0:04
11.   Reel 2, "Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher": A Young Girl Signs Up - 0:59
12.   Reel 2, "Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher": Music from the Loudspeakers During Telephone Box Scene (composed by Padre Martini, arr. F. Kreisler) - 0:57
13.   Reel 2, "Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher": Kuzmina Starts to Sign Up - 1:05
14.   Reel 2, "Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher": March - 0:47
15.   Reel 2, "Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher": Barrel-Organ - 1:05
16.   Reel 2, "Kuzmina Enlists as a Teacher": The Old Janitor Flirts with Her - 0:31
17.   Reel 3, "Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes": Overtone Singer - 0:43
18.   Reel 3, "Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes": The Steppe of the Altai - 0:57
19.   Reel 3, "Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes": The Altai - 4:59
20.   Reel 3, "Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes": She Meets the Village Chairman and Some of the Locals - 3:38
21.   Reel 3, "Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes": Kuzmina in Her Peasant's Hut - 3:07
22.   Reel 3, "Kuzmina Arrives Alone in the Altai Steppes": Kuzmina Takes Courage - 0:25
23.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": Introduction - 0:20
24.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": The School Class - 0:59
25.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": The Bai Selects the Children to Tend The Sheep - 2:53
26.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": Kuzmina is Struck as She Protests - 0:43
27.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": The Village Children's Wife Sings A Lullaby to Her Baby - 2:46
28.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": Kuzmina Sees the Wife's Crockery and Reminisces - 0:51
29.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": The Village Soviet Chairman Waking Up - 3:04
30.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": Kuzmina Confronts the Village Chairman - 1:16
31.   Reel 4, "Kuzmina Starts Teaching the Local Children": The Village Chairman Drinks Tea with His Wife - 0:41
32.   Reel 5, "Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air": The Children Play and Dance with Her - 2:12
33.   Reel 5, "Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air": The Bai and the Sheep Trader, a Sheep is Slaughtered - 2:48
34.   Reel 5, "Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air": Kuzmina Protests - 1:24
35.   Reel 5, "Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air": The Bai Shouts Back at Her - 1:11
36.   Reel 5, "Kuzmina Teaches in the Open Air": The Locals Conspire to Murder Kuzmina - 4:44
37.   Reel 6, "Attempted Murder of Kuzmina": Kuzmina on Her Way to The Next Town - 2:06
38.   Reel 6, "Attempted Murder of Kuzmina": A Snowstorm Starts to Build - 1:13
39.   Reel 6, "Attempted Murder of Kuzmina": Snowstorm - 2:18
40.   Reel 6, "Attempted Murder of Kuzmina": Kuzmina Almost Freezes to Death (beginning) - 1:33
41.   Reel 6, "Attempted Murder of Kuzmina": Kuzmina Almost Freezes to Death (conclusion) - 4:47
42.   Reel 7, "Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane": The Village Chairman Meets with the Locals - 0:28
43.   Reel 7, "Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane": Kuzmina Close to Death to Bed - 0:57
44.   Reel 7, "Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane": The Village Chairman and Meeting - 0:26
45.   Reel 7, "Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane": The Children Come to Comfort Kuzmina - 1:08
46.   Reel 7, "Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane": The Village Chairman Plans Her Funeral - 0:55
47.   Reel 7, "Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane": The Locals Express Themselves Violently - 1:39
48.   Reel 7, "Kuzmina's Rescue by Aeroplane": The Aeroplane from Moscow Arrives to Rescue the Teacher - 3:46

Reviews

Shostakovich Classic Restored (Jan 11, 2008)
Reviewer:Emma Choi
Known primarily for his symphonies and string quartets, Dmitri Shostakovich was also a prolific film composer, although the three-dozen soundtracks he wrote haven’t received nearly as much attention as the rest of his output. Chandos has put out several CDs featuring excerpts from his various film scores, but to my knowledge, Naxos is the only label to release complete soundtracks.... Known primarily for his symphonies and string quartets, Dmitri Shostakovich was also a prolific film composer, although the three-dozen soundtracks he wrote haven’t received nearly as much attention as the rest of his output. Chandos has put out several CDs featuring excerpts from his various film scores, but to my knowledge, Naxos is the only label to release complete soundtracks. “Odna,” a 1930 film about a young female teacher attempting to bring a remote village in line with Soviet orthodoxy, represents the composer’s second score. It’s a large-scale work for orchestra, choir and solo vocalists, and also features some unusual instrumentation in the form of barrel organ and theremin (the first use on film of this wonderful instrument). Shostakovich was beginning to find his compositional voice at this time, and his “Odna” score reflects his growing confidence and maturity. It also demonstrates his keen grasp of dramatics and ability to underline a wide variety of emotions. Early in the film his cues project naïve optimism and sentimentality, but as the onscreen mood darkens, his score assumes a more introspective and mournful character. At all times Shostakovich’s score is inventive, passionate and committed. He effectively conveys in musical terms the contrast between the modern, forward-looking young teacher and the backward, superstitious villagers with whom she must contend. Although the original soundtrack was destroyed during World War II, it was painstakingly reconstructed by the conductor Mark Fitz-Gerald, who leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony on this world premiere recording. Naxos is to be commended for making available this historically and artistically important chapter in the composer’s career. (read more)