Hamlet Suite
Dmitri Shostakovich (tr. Suchoff)
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The original Shostakovich work bears the designation Opus 32a.
General Info
Year: 1964 / 1975
Duration:
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
Movements
1. Flourish and Dance Music
2. Funeral Music
3. Pantomime of the Actors
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Hamlet Suite is taken from music written by Shostakovich for the Russian film. Hamlet is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak.
When the film appeared in 1964, it received a number of prizes both in the Soviet Union and abroad (see below). Its reception among British and American reviewers was generally favourable, despite the fact that this version of a prized work of English literature was not made in English. The New York Times reviewer took up this point: "But the lack of this aural stimulation - of Shakespeare's eloquent words - is recompensed in some measure by a splendid and stirring musical score by Dmitri Shostakovich. This has great dignity and depth, and at times an appropriate wildness or becoming levity".
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
- Florida: IV
- Louisiana: IV
- Michigan: Senior High A
- Tennessee: IV
Performances
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- Contra Costa Wind Symphony (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (Brad Hogarth, conductor) – 21 May 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Waltz No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brown) (post 1956/2021)
All Wind Works
- Allegro from "Symphony No. 10" (tr. Fisher) (1954/2010)
- Ballet Suite #4 (arr. Pappajohn) (1953)
- Batterie from "The Nose" (arr. Schaefer) (1928/1978)
- Concertino (orch. Singleton) (1953/)
- Dance I. See: Jazz Suite No. 2
- Ein Volksfest (arr. Rembach) (1955/1995)
- Ein Volksfest. See: Folk Festival
- Excerpts from "Symphony No. 5" Finale (arr. Longfield) (1937/2007)
- Festive Overture (arr. Frost) (1954/2016)
- Festive Overture (tr. Hunsberger) (1954/1965)
- Festive Overture (tr. Martin) (1954/2016?)
- Festive Overture (tr. Patterson) (1954/)
- Festive Overture (tr. Takahashi) (1954/1998)
- The Fire of Eternal Glory (tr. Timothy Rhea) (1960/2011)
- Fire of Eternal Glory (arr. Curnow) (1960/2011)
- Folk Dances (tr. Reynolds) (1942/1979)
- Folk Dances (arr. Erickson) (1942/1979)
- Folk Dances (arr. Curnow) (1942/2000)
- Folk Festival (tr. Hunsberger) (1955/1971)
- Folk Festival. See also: Ein Volksfest
- Fortinbras March from "Hamlet" (tr. Suchoff) (1932/1967)
- The Gadfly (1955/)
- The Gadfly (tr. Patterson) (1955/)
- Galop (tr. Hunsberger) (1959/1971)
- Galop (from "The Limpid Stream") (tr. Miller) (1935)
- Hamlet Suite (tr. Suchoff) (1964/1975)
- Intermezzo (arr. Cahn) (1928/1986/1994)
- Jazz Suite No. 1 (1934)
- Jazz Suite No. 2 (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- March (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Lyric Waltz (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1995)
- Dance I (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Dance II (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- Finale (arr. de Meij) (post-1956/1994)
- March (arr. Curnow) (2014)
- March (arr. de Meij). See: Jazz Suite No. 2
- March of the Soviet Militia (ed. Iakubov) (1970/2006)
- October, Op 131 (arr. Mitchell) (1967)
- Overture on Russian and Kirg (arr. Janssen)
- Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Songs (tr. Duker) (1963/1989)
- Overture to "The Gadfly" (arr. Geert Flik) (1955/2006)
- Piano Concerto No 2 (tr. Pontini) (1957/2012)
- Piano Concerto No 2 in F Major (arr. Bamonte)
- Piano Trio No. 2 (arr. Graham)
- Priest and His Servant Balda, The (1934)
- Prelude, Op. 34, No. 14 (arr. Reynolds) (1988)
- Prelude 21 and Fugue 1 (arr. McCullough) (1952/)
- Prelude (Variations) from "Ballet Suite No. 4" (arr. Blankenship) (1953/)
- Romance (arr. Peel) (1955/1985)
- Spanish Dance from "The Gadfly" (arr. Curnow)
- Suite for Jazz Orchestra no. 1. See: Jazz Suite No. 1
- Symphony No. 1 (tr. Scarbrough) (1924-25)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt I (tr. Schaeffer)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt II (tr. Smith) (1937/1944)
- Symphony No. 5: Finale (tr. Righter) (1937/1947)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt IV (tr. Rogers) (1937/2003)
- Symphony No. 5, Mvmt IV (tr. Bocook) (1937/2005)
- Symphony No. 9 (arr. Mertens and Suykerbuyk) (1945/1986)
- Symphony No. 9 (tr. Schaefer) (1945/1976)
- Symphony No. 10, Mvt. II (tr. Fisher) (tr. Fisher) (1954/2010)
- Symphony No. 10, Mvmt II (tr. O'Brien) (1954)
- Symphony No. 11: Second Movement Excerpts (arr. Daehn) (1957/1989)
- Tahiti Trot (tr. Brubaker) (1927/2009)
- Three Symphonic Preludes (arr. Reed)
- Two Scarlatti Pieces (1928)
- Waltz No. 2 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brown) (post 1956/2021)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. Connery) (post 1956/1996)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. Curnow) (post 1956/2010)
- Waltz No. 2 (arr. De Meij). See: Jazz Suite No. 2
Resources
- Hamlet (1964 film), Wikipedia Accessed 20 May 2017
- Shostakovich, D.; Suchoff, B. (1975). Hamlet Suite [score]. MCA Music: Melville, N.Y.