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The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Russian: Сюита для джазового оркестра №2) is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow (Moscow Radio) by the State Jazz Orchestra.
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich [a] [b] (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist [1] who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
Despite being commonly attributed to Shostakovich and based on his music, the Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 was arranged by Levon Atovmyan ; a composer, arranger, and artistic administrator born in Russian Turkestan. They met at a meeting of Vsyeroskomdram , the All-Russia Society of Composers and Dramatists, in the early 1930s. [5]
Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor Cello and orchestra 1966 Dedicated to Rostropovich. First and third movements quoted in "To Anna Akhmatova" in Op. 143. [192] Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 2 (Introduction, Waltz, Intermezzo, Finale) Pops orchestra before 1967
The episode's signature waltz is Jazz Suite No. 2 (Suite for Promenade Orchestra), VI — Waltz 2, by Dmitri Shostakovich, recorded by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly. The soundtrack also includes music by Luigi Boccherini, Rick Krive and Antonio Vivaldi. [3]
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...
It is scored for 3 saxophones (soprano, alto and tenor), 2 trumpets, trombone, wood block, snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, xylophone, banjo, Hawaiian guitar, piano, violin and double bass. [2] The premiere was on March 24, 1934. [2] A performance takes about 8 minutes. [1] Shostakovich used the waltz in his 1935 ballet The Limpid Stream. [3]
The "Romance" section from the suite, with its solo violin melody, is known to Western TV audiences as the theme music for the Euston Films mini-series Reilly, Ace of Spies, about Russian adventurer Sidney Reilly. The finale part of the suite can be heard on the classic music radio of the 2012 video game Sleeping Dogs.