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        • Dmitri Shostakovich

        • Zoya, Music to the Film, Op. 64 (1944)

        • 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+Ebcl.2+cbn/4.5.5.2/timp.perc+cym+glock+xyl+Drum Kit/Drum Set+tam+tgl/2hp/str
        • mixted choir

        Programme Note

        Score for the film by Boris Chirskov and Lev Arnshtam.

        Shostakovich wrote just one film-score during war-time.  ‘Zoya’, directed by Lev Arnshtam, was based on the true story of an 18-year-old girl, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who fought heroically against the Germans in the early months of the Nazi invasion, was captured, brutally tortured and finally hanged.

        While ‘Zoya’ undoubtedly belongs to the genre of Shostakovich’s ‘patriotic’ scores, this is an unusual piece. It was written soon after the mighty 8th Symphony, but in a much simpler style, shot through with the shared romanticism and idealism that so many older Russians still remember from those terrible times. This is not a score in praise of Stalin or Communism, but an emotional appeal to ordinary folk, using an old-fashioned musical language with echoes of Tchaikovsky.

        Note by Gerard McBurney

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        1. [No. 1] (Allegretto)
        2. [No. 2] (Moderato)
        3. [No. 3] (Adagio)
        4. [No. 4] (Moderato)
        5. [No. 5] (Moderato)
        6. [No. 6] (Moderato – Allegro – Presto)
        7. [No. 7] Victory (Adagio)
        8. [No. 8] Belfry (Allegro)
        9. [No. 12] (Moderato)
        10. [No. 13] (Moderato)
        11. [No. 16] (Allegretto)
        12. [No. 20] Dneprostroi (Allegretto)
        13. [No. 21] (Adagio)
        14. [No. 22] Parade of First of May (Allegretto)
        15. [No. 23] Arrival of the Heroes (Allegro)
        16. [No. 24] (Allegro)
        17. [No. 25] Remembrance (Moderato – Allegro)
        18. [No. 30] Moscow (Adagio)
        19. [No. 31] Zoya’s Song (Moderato con moto) Konstantin Simonov, lyrics
        20. [No. 35] [con moto]