Suite from the Opera 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District', Op. 29a

First performance: 8 June 2005, Stuttgart Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra – Andrei Boreyko (conductor).

According to Manashir Yakubov, who assigned the opus number 29a to the present work, the Suite was compiled by the composer shortly after having finished the score of ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’. It consists of the entr‘actes between scenes 2 and 3, scenes 7 and 8, and scenes 6 and 7 – the last two transposed. Although the manuscript score, held in the Library of the USSR Music Foundation, was obviously used much there is no information about any performance.

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1. Allegro con brio (3 minutes)
2. Presto (3 minutes)
3. Allegretto (2 minutes)