• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • The Human Comedy, Incidental music to a play adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s ‘La comédie humaine’, Op. 37 (1934)

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Programme Note

By Pavel Sukhotkin

1. Introduction (Moderato)
2. Overture (Moderato)
3. The Students’ Song (Allegretto)
4. Waltz (Allegro bravura) [for piano]
5. Elegy (Moderato) [for piano]
6. March (Allegretto)
7. Merry Paris (Allegretto)
8. The Theatre (Allegro con brio)
9. The Theme of Paris (Andantino)
10. Cruel Paris (Moderato)
11. Gavotte [with Trio] (Allegretto)
12. Flourish (Allegro molto)
13. The Panorama of Paris (Andantino)
14. Panic on the Exchange (Presto)
15. Barrel Organ (Andantino)
16. Bank of the Seine (Andantino)
17. Casket with Diamonds (Allegro)
18. Police March (Allegretto)
19. Flourish (Allegro)
20. Sarabande (Moderato)
21. Scandal (Allegro molto)
22. [Episode] (for piano) (Allegretto)