The Gamblers (Shostakovich)
The Gamblers, Op. 63 (1941-42; Igroki), is an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Gamblers (1842). The surviving first act lasts around 47 minutes.
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Shostakovich, who was trying to set every word of Gogol's play, abandoned the opera as too long and unwieldy.[1] He returned to the work towards the end of his life, reusing material from the overture in the scherzo of the sonata for viola and piano (1975).[2]
Meyer completion
The opera was completed by Krzysztof Meyer as Die Spieler premiered in Leningrad 1978.[3]
Recordings
- Shostakovich The Gamblers, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, cond. Andrei Chistyakov
- Shostakovich The Gamblers, with the same composer's The Nose, cond. Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Shostakovich The Gamblers; with Veniamin Fleishman's Rothschild's Violin. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko 2008
- Shostakovich/Meyer Die Spieler (completion) Michail Jurowski, Capriccio Records
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References
- Bartlett, Rosamund (2008). Fairclough, Pauline; Fanning, David (eds.). Shostakovich as Opera Composer. Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780521603157.
- Macdonald, Malcolm (2008). Fairclough, Pauline; Fanning, David (eds.). 'I Took a Simple Little Theme and Developed it': Shostakovich's String Concertos and Sonatas. Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0521603157.
- Franklin Mesa, Opera: An Encyclopedia of World Premieres and Significant ... 1476605378, 2007: "Composer: Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitriyevich (1906–75). Composed 1941–2; incomplete. Completed by Krzysztof Meyer as Die Spieler. Librettist: Based on the play (1842) by Nikolay Vasil'yevich Gogol (1809–52). World Premiere: Leningrad 1978."
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