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- Dmitri Shostakovich
Suite from music to the film 'Hamlet', Op. 116a (1964)
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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.
arr. by Levon Atovmian
- 2+pic.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp.perc/hp.hpd.pf.cel/str
- 42 min
- 30th January 2026, La Filature, Mulhouse, France
- 1st February 2026, La Filature, Mulhouse, France
Programme Note
Compiled by Levon Atovmyan (1964)
First performance: 10 February 1965, Leningrad
Meskhishvili’s counting of items of Op. 116a is slightly different: ‘Introduction’, ‘Ball at the Palace’, ‘The Ghost’, ‘In the Garden’, ‘Hamlet and Ophelia’, ‘Arrival and Scene of the Players’, ‘Scene of Poisoning’, ‘Duel and Death of Hamlet’. There is also a concert scenario, ‘Hamlet’, by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, a compilation of sixteen items taken from Op. 32 and Op. 116 with inserted fanfares from Alexander Varlamov’s 1837 incidental music to ‘Hamlet’.
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1. Introduction (Largo) [No. 1 in the film score]
2. Ball at the Palace (Presto) [No. 5]
3. The Ghost (Largo) [No. 9]
4. In the Garden (Moderato ma non troppo) [No. 19]
5. Scene of Poisoning (Largo – Moderato ma non troppo – Presto) [No. 21]
6. Arrival and Scene of the Players (Allegro) [No. 13]
7. Ophelia (Andante) [No. 28]
8. Duel and Death of Hamlet (Allegro) [Nos. 32, 33 and 34]