Shostakovich / Yablonsky / Russian State So Hamlet CD

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.

1. Overture (Suite, No. 1) 2. Military Music 3. Fanfares 4. The Palace Ball (Suite, No. 2) 5. Story of Horatio and the Ghost 6. The Ball 7. The Ghost (Suite, No. 3) 8. Hamlet's Parting from Ophelia 9. Palace Music 10. Arrival of the Players (Suite, No. 6) 11. Monologue (What a Rogue and Peasant Slave) 12. Hamlet's Monologue (To Be or Not to Be) 13. Royal Fanfare 14. In the Garden (Suite, No. 4) 15. Booth Fanfare 16. Poisoning Scene (Suite, No. 5) 17. The Flutes Play 18. Ophelia's Descent Into Madness (Song of Ophelia) 19. Ophelia's Insanity 20. Death of Ophelia (Suite, No. 7) 21. Hamlet at Ophelia's Grave 22. The Cemetery 23. The Duel/The Death of Hamlet/Hamlet's Funeral (Suite, No. 8)