The Golden Age

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Симфонический оркестр Большого театра & Yuri Simonov

The Golden Age is a ballet by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1929–1930 and premiered in 1930. Scored for orchestra with vocal and dance elements, it blends jazz-influenced rhythms, dance forms and modernist dissonance to satirise contemporary society and marks an experimental phase in Shostakovich's early career as he explored stage works and popular musical idioms.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Prelude
    1:30
  2. 2.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Folk Festival
    2:11
  3. 3.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Rita's Dance
    2:40
  4. 4.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Allegro - Galop
    1:37
  5. 5.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. March
    2:03
  6. 6.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Agitation Placard
    2:29
  7. 7.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Meeting of Rita and Boris
    2:26
  8. 8.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Lyuska and the New Economic Policy Man
    1:13
  9. 9.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Fox-trot
    1:39
  10. 10.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Dance of the Diva
    0:39
  11. 11.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Polka
    1:59
  12. 12.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Dance of Rita and Yashka
    3:05
  13. 13.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Conflict of Boris and Yashka
    1:40
  14. 14.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Yashka and the Gangsters
    7:21
  15. 15.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. General Waltz and Quarrel
    2:35
  16. 16.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Total Confusion
    1:56
  17. 17.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act I. Adagio of Rita and Boris
    7:06

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Tahiti Trot
    4:52
  2. 3.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Scene: Rita and Yashka
    2:55
  3. 4.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Tahiti Troi (cont'd.)
    1:38
  4. 5.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Robbery
    2:46
  5. 6.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. The Fishermen
    2:58
  6. 7.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Lyric Scene
    2:40
  7. 8.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Rita's Monologue
    1:47
  8. 9.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Galop
    3:04
  9. 10.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Adagio of Rita and Boris
    3:20
  10. 11.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Appearance of Gangsters
    0:53
  11. 12.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Fight
    1:16
  12. 13.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act II. Chase
    3:43
  13. 14.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. End of Gangsters' Nest
    5:30
  14. 15.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Boris' Appeal
    1:30
  15. 16.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Scene: Lyuska
    0:51
  16. 17.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Blues
    4:20
  17. 18.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Foxtrot
    2:12
  18. 19.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Rita and Yashka
    1:25
  19. 20.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Scene and Death of Lyuska
    1:07
  20. 21.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Can-can
    5:18
  21. 22.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Adagio of Rita and Boris
    5:19
  22. 23.
    The Golden Age, op. 22: Act III. Finale
    3:09

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