The Adventures of Korzinkina
- Suite op. 59 (1940)2.picc.2.2.Ebcl.2-4.2.1.1-timp.perc:tgl/tamb/SD/cyms/BD/xyl-harp-pft(2players)-strings
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Score for the film by Klimenty Mints.
Yanya Korzinkina is a beautiful young railway clerk, and always ready to help anyone. So naturally everyone loves her, including a young singer on his way to a music-competition. When he loses his voice at the competition, she jumps on to the stage, kisses him passionately, and he miraculously gets his voice back.
This wafer-thin comedy, directed by Klimenty Mints, provoked Shostakovich into one of his most charming and light-hearted film-scores, bubbling with wit and amusement. Some famous tunes from the 19th century make unexpected appearances and at one point Shostakovich revisits his boyhood experience of accompanying silent-films with a delicious gallop for piano-duet alone. At the end a small chorus hymns the goodness and beauty of Yanya with a mock operatic apotheosis.
This is music to bring a smile to the face of children of all ages.
Note by Gerard McBurney