This new volume of film music from the genial russian composer, join together works of a content particularly close to the then ruling soviet ideas. First, a suite of Golden Mountains (1931), a film which was premiered as a silent with a piano score from the own Shostakovitch, to be reinstate in a sound version on 1936; the music, varied and surprising, includes a curious Waltz, an spectacular piece for organ and orchestra (Fugue), and a overawed Funeral March, and musically supported a plot about strikers and revolutionaries. On the same patriotic and revolutionary track were the three movies about Maxim, a soviet hero from Petrograd, filmed by Gregori Kozintsev (the more reputable of soviet directors during the half of the century): Maxim's Youth (1935), The Return of Maxim (1937) and The Vyborg District (1938), the three of them with original music by Shostakovitch, published as op.41, op.45 and op.50, respectively. Put together by his friend Atovmian as op.50a, the eight pieces which makes the suite who resume the three scores use a clearly necessary patriotic and triumphant tone, if well there is room for their author's musical dashes (the burlesque Prologue, the fugatto of Attack Scene), and includes a sometimes mahlerian version of A Las Barricadas in Demostration. M.A.F.

Golden Mountains (Suite), op.30a (1931) - 23:26
Maxim Trilogy, op.50a (1938) - 30:28
The Vyborg District (Overture), op.50 (1938) - 1:52
Rundfunk-Symphonieorchester, Berlin - Swetlana Katchur (Sopran) - Conductor: Michail Jurowski
CAPRICCIO 10561 / 56'