Katerina Ismailova Dmitri Shostakovitch / Schostakowitsch / Arr. José Schyns

Titel / Title: Katerina Ismailova - Suite
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen

Shostakovich completed the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk at the age of 27 and it was produced in Moscow in January 1934 and later that year in Leningrad as well.
In 1936 the BBC gave a concert performance in English conducted by Albert Coates.
In Russia and elsewhere it had been greated with great enthusiasm, being given 83 times in Leningrad alone between 1934 and 1936.
However, the opera was to prove the young composer's undoing, for in January 1936 Stalin attended a performance and it was immediately condemned in an editorial in Pravda.
This single issue of a newspaper, Shostakovich tells us, 'changed my whole existence'. The opera only reappeared, sanitised as Katerina Ismailove, logn after Stalin's death, in 1962. The original had to wait until the 1980s for its revival.