• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Alone, Music to the Film, Op. 26 (1931)

  • G Schirmer Inc (USA, Canada and Mexico only)
    Le Chant Du Monde (France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries)

G Schirmer is the publisher of the work in the USA, Canada and Mexico only. Le Chant du Monde is the publisher of the work in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries.
restored by Mark Fitz-Gerald

  • 2+pic.2+ehn.2+Ebcl+bcl.2+cbn/4.2.3.1/timp.perc.tbells.xyl/ theremin.hp.hmn.org/str
  • S.Ms.T.mixed chorus
  • 1 hr 15 min

Programme Note

Reel No. 1
1. [Con moto]*
2. [Allegro giocoso]*
3. [Allegro]*
4. March. The Street (Allegro)
5. Barrel-Organ (Kusmina waits for Sobolevsky) (Andantino)
6. Galop (‘Happy Days are Coming’) (Allegro)
7. [March] [Allegretto]*
8. Choral Finale (‘Stop! Don’t Go Away’) (Andantino)
Reel No. 2
9. [Marciale]*
10. March (Allegretto)
11. [Moderato]*
12. [March] (Allegretto)*
13. [Allegro]*
14. Allegro
Reel No. 3
15a. [Overtone Singer]*
15. The Steppe of the Altai (Andante)
16. The Altai (Andantino)
17. Adagio
18. Kuzmina in the Peasant’s Hut (Largo – Allegro)
19. [Allegro]*
Reel No. 4
20. [Andante]*
21. Allegro
22. The Bey Takes the Children to the Sheep Pastures (Largo)
23. Largo
24. [Andante]*
25. [Allegro]*
26. Village Soviet Chairman at Sleep and Rising (Adagio)
27. Kuzmina’s Arrival (Allegro)
28. Village Soviet Chairman Drinks Tea with his Wife (Allegretto)
Reel No. 5
29. Adagio – Allegretto
30. Adagio
31. Allegro
32. Russian/Enemy/Nod of the head (Moderato)
33. [Allegro vivace – Adagio molto]*
Reel No. 6
34. Allegretto – Presto – Allegretto – Presto – Adagio
35. The Storm in the Steppe (Allegro)
36. Snowstorm (Presto)
37. Largo
38. Finale (Largo)
Reel No. 7
39. The Aeroplane (Allegro)
40. [Poco lento]*
41. Allegro
42. [Andante]*
43. Adagio
44. Allegro
45. Finale (Allegro)
Appendix (fragments not used in the film)
1. Beginning (Allegro vivo) [score]
2. The Barrel-Organ (Andantino)
3. Choral Finale ‘Stop! Don’t Go Away’ (Andante) [65 introductory bars]
4. Andante
5. Andante
6. Andante
7. Beginning (Allegro) [piano version]
8. The Dream [Andantino] [piano version]
9. March [Allegretto] [piano version of No. 12]
10. The Russian Lot [vocal line]
11. The Bai’s Conversation (Moderato) [piano score]

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