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- Dmitri Shostakovich
The Gadfly, Suite from the Film (for orchestra), Op. 97a (1955)
- G Schirmer Inc (USA, Canada and Mexico only)
Le Chant Du Monde (France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries)
G Schirmer is the publisher of the work in the USA, Canada and Mexico only. Le Chant du Monde is the publisher of the work in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries.
- 2+pic.3.3(3asx)2+cbn/4.3.3.1/timp.perc/hp.pf.cel/str
- 42 min
- 28th February 2026, Duke Family Performance Hall, Davidson, NC, United States of America
- 28th February 2026, Duke Family Performance Hall, Davidson, NC, United States of America
Programme Note
Compiled by Levon Atovmyan (1955)
Atovmyan made a considerable number of alterations for the compilation of Op. 97a such as changes of the sequence of items, composing bridge episodes, transpositions and reorchestrations. According to John Riley a substantial portion of unused fragments of the film music survived in Atovmyan’s Suite, Op. 97a. Variant title of No. 3: ‘Tarantella’, ‘Folk Festival’ and ‘Folk Feast’. No. 8 (‘Romance’) reappears in ‘The Lady and the Hooligan’, a ballet compiled by Atovmyan. Romance’ became largely known to a Western audience as theme music to the 1980ies television series ‘Reilly, Ace o Spies’ portraying the famous spy Sidney Reilly who may have been Ethel Voynich’s model for Arthur in ‘The Gadfly’.
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1. Overture (Moderato con moto) [No. 1 of the film score]
2. Contredanse (Moderato) [No. 13]
3. People’s Holiday (Allegro vivace) [No. 16]
4. Interlude (Adagio) [No. 17]
5. Barrel Organ (Allegretto) [No. 9]
6. Galop (Allegro) [No. 14]
7. Prelude (Andantino) [Nos. 15 and 5]
8. Romance (Allegro moderato) [Nos. 3 and 7]
9. Intermezzo (Andante) [Nos. 10, 12 and 18]
10. Nocturne (Moderato) [No. 23]
11. Scena (Moderato) [No. 2]
12. Finale (Allegro non troppo) [No. 20]