570316 bk Odna 11/11/07 11:49 Page 12 Sudarevo dityatko, a sudarevo miloye! Dear child, oh sweet child! Skol’ko u tebya detushek? How many children do you have? Semero, semero, batyushka! Seven, seven, father! Semero, semero, rodimen’koy! Seven, seven, my dear! c (mezzo-soprano) Sudarevo dityatko, a sudarevo miloye! Dear child, oh sweet child! Skol’ko u tebya detushek? How many children do you have? Semero, semero, batyushka! Seven, seven, father! Semero, semero, rodimen’koy! Seven, seven, my dear! Transliterations and translations by Anastasia Belina Booklet Editor: Peter Bromley Irina Shostakovich and Mark Fitz-Gerald at the world première of Odna, 12th April 2003, Theatre aan de Parade, Den Bosch, Holland. 8.570316 12 570316 bk Odna 11/11/07 11:49 Page 2 Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975) VOCAL TEXTS The Complete Score for the 1929–1931 Sound/Silent Film 3 (soprano) Konchen, konchen tekhnikum, konchena uchyoba, I just finished college, my studies are over, Odna (Alone), Op. 26 Ya zhivu na verkhu bolshogo neboskryoba. Now I live at the top of a big skyscraper. Score reconstruction by Mark Fitz-Gerald V neboskryobe etom tselïkh pyat’ etazhey. In the skyscraper there are five floors. 1 The Beginning (Overture) * – Allegro vivo 0:53 Reel 3: Kuzmina arrives ‘alone’ V kazhdom etazhe magazin ‘te-zhe’, In each floor there is a shop Tezhe shop, in the Altai Steppes ‘Te-zhim’ poroshkom chishchu zubï. I clean my teeth with the powder from Tezhe. Reel 1: Kuzmina in Leningrad Grebeshkom pricheshu, i bez pomadï svezhi gubï! I comb my hair, and my lips look fresh without The Altai people at work any lipstick! 2 Kuzmina wakes – Con moto 1:20 & Overtone singer 0:43 3 Song ‘Konchen, Konchen tekhnikum’ * The steppe of the Altai – Andante 0:57 Dva doklada predstoit eshche mne sdat’. I still have to deliver two reports. – Allegro giocoso 1:05 ( The Altai (Kuzmina arrives as the locals look on) Nado, nado prochitat’ snova zanovo. I must read Plekhanov again. 4 Morning exercises – Allegro 1:27 – Andantino 4:59 Plekhanova. Sorok vosemnadtsatïy tom. Forty-eighth volume. 5 March ‘The Street’ – Allegro 0:37 ) She meets the village chairman and some of the Dom, dom, dom, vsyo krugom, dom, House, house, house, all around me is house, 6 Barrel-Organ. Kuzmina waits for Sobolevsky locals – Adagio 3:38 A v dome tom, vsem izvestnïy fakt, And in that house—a well-known fact— – Andantino 0:42 ¡ Kuzmina in her peasant’s hut – Largo 3:07 Prozhivaet Zhakt. lives Zhakt. 7 Galop and song ‘How Good Life will Be!’ ™ Kuzmina takes courage – Allegro 0:25 Zhakt, Zhakt, Zhakt! R’yanïy filosof Zhakt! Zhakt, Zhakt, Zhakt! Zealous philosopher Zhakt! – Allegro 2:42 Ochen’ horosho! Very well! 8 March – Allegretto 0:45 Reel 4: Kuzmina starts teaching 9 (Original) Introduction * – Andante; the local children 7 ^ • (tenor) The crockery sings ‘Stay!’ – Andantino 3:59 Kakaya horoshaya budet zhizn’! How good life will be! £ Introduction – Andante 0:20 Kakaya horoshaya budet zhizn’! How good life will be! ¢ Reel 2: Kuzmina enlists as a teacher: The school class – Allegro 0:59 Kakaya zhizn’! What a life! ∞ her decisions and conflicts The Bai selects the children to tend the sheep Kakaya zhizn’! What a life! – Largo 2:53 Kakaya horoshaya budet zhizn’! How good life will be! 0 § Office typewriters – Marciale 0:04 Kuzmina is struck as she protests – Largo 0:43 Kakaya horoshaya budet zhizn’! How good life will be! ! A young girl signs up – March: Allegretto 0:59 ¶ The village chairman’s wife sings a lullaby to @ her baby – Andante – Lento 2:46 Music from loudspeakers during telephone box 9 (chorus, soprano, tenor) scene – Andantino (composed by Padre Martini, • Kuzmina sees the wife’s crockery and reminisces Ostan’sya, Ostan’sya, Ostan’sya! Stay, stay, stay! arr. Kreisler) ** 0:57 – Allegro 0:51 Etc… Etc. # Kuzmina starts to sign up ª The village Soviet chairman waking up – March: Moderato 1:05 – Adagio 3:04 ¶ (mezzo-soprano) º Kuzmina confronts the village chairman Kuzmina explains her situation to the supervisor Dear child, sweet child! – Allegro 1:16 Sudarevo dityatko, sudarevo miloye! What is your husband’s name? $ March – Allegro 0:47 ⁄ The village chairman drinks tea with his wife Kak u tebya zovut muzha to? Sidor, Sidor, father. % Barrel-Organ – Allegro 1:05 – Allegretto 0:41 Sidorom, Sidorom, batyushka. ^ The old janitor flirts with her – Allegro 0:31 Sidorom, Sidorom, rodimen’koy. Sidor, Sidor, my dear. 8.570316 2 11 8.570316 570316 bk Odna 11/11/07 11:49 Page 10 decades. Estonian-born Paavo Järvi has been the new Chief Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Reel 5: Kuzmina teaches in the open air Reel 7: Kuzmina’s rescue by aeroplane since 2006. Järvi is one of the prominent conductors of his generation and musical variety will again be one of the while the sheep are being tended watchwords of his tenureship. Under his baton, the orchestra continues to enjoy an outstanding reputation worldwide. b The village chairman meets with the locals ¤ The children play and dance with her – – Allegro 0:28 Adagio – Allegretto 2:12 c Kuzmina close to death in bed – Poco lento 0:57 Mark Fitz-Gerald ‹ The Bai and the sheep trader, a sheep is d The village chairman and meeting – Allegro 0:26 slaughtered – Adagio 2:48 e The children come to comfort Kuzmina Mark Fitz-Gerald studied in London at the Royal College of Music, where › Kuzmina protests – Allegro 1:24 – Andante 1:08 his professors included Norman Del Mar, winning all the major prizes fi The Bai shouts back at her – Moderato f The village chairman plans her funeral for both orchestral and operatic conducting. It was during this time that – Presto 1:11 “at the expense of the community” – Adagio 0:55 Henze invited him to take part in the first Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte fl The locals conspire to murder Kuzmina g The locals express themselves violently in Montepulciano, as a result of which he was invited regularly to as she goes to report them – Allegro 1:39 Switzerland as Guest Conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta. From 1983 to – Allegro vivace – Adagio 4:44 h The aeroplane from Moscow arrives to rescue 1987 he was Artistic Director of the RIAS Jugendorchester (West Berlin) “the teacher” – Finale – Allegro 3:46 where his innovative Filmharmonic Concerts received much acclaim and Reel 6: Attempted murder of Kuzmina were later made available on CD. He returned there to continue the series as she is abandoned in the snow *** with the Berlin Rundfunkorchester in 1992. Since then he has performed * Not used in final version of film the very specialised task of accompanying silent films live with orchestra, ‡ with much success in many countries and festivals throughout the world. Kuzmina on her way to the next town ** Solo violin: Ulrich Edelmann His performances of the Trauberg/Shostakovich classic New Babylon – Allegretto 2:06 *** The film for this reel has been lost ° (1929) have received much critical acclaim, in particular at the Japanese A snowstorm starts to build – Allegro **** 1:13 **** Theremin: Barbara Buchholz première of the work in 2000 and the Rotterdam Gergiev Festival 2001. · Snowstorm – Presto 2:18 With the help of Mrs Irina Shostakovich and Krzysztof Meyer he has Kuzmina almost freezes to death The score of Odna was restored in 2003 by Mark Fitz- restored the complete score to another Trauberg/Shostakovich film, Odna ‚ Largo 1:33 Gerald, with the encouragement and support of Irina (1929-31), and conducted the world première (the first Shostakovich a Largo 4:47 Shostakovich, Krzysztof Meyer, and Theodore van Houten première for over twenty years) in Holland and later in Paris, with who was responsible for the first public performance in enormous success. His restoration is now published in the new complete edition of the composer’s works, and he Den Bosch, Netherlands, on 12th April, 2003. conducted the United Kingdom première at the Barbican centre in 2006. In 1986 he was appointed Music Director of Kentish Opera, and has assisted regularly at the Vienna Staatsoper, as well as the Vienna Kammeroper. In 1992 he made his début at the Vienna Volksoper with The Cunning Little Vixen, and in 1994 conducted the world première of an opera by the Mexican composer Victor Razgado at Spoleto. His career has brought guest engagements with orchestras throughout Europe and in Japan. From 1989 to 1993 he was Associate Conductor of the Orquesta de Porto (Orquesta Classica do Porto, Portugal). He was Assistant Conductor in Strasbourg both at the Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Opéra du Rhin from 1997 to 2002. 8.570316 10 3 8.570316 570316 bk Odna 11/11/07 11:49 Page 4 Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975) Barbara Buchholz Odna (Alone), Op. 26 Barbara Buchholz studied music at the University of Bielefeld. In the 1980s she toured Shostakovich’s first full-length film score, for Kozintsev to Leningrad, waving cheerily to her happy charges, it as bass player with the women’s orchestra Reichlich Weiblich. Later, the recipient of and Trauberg’s New Babylon (1929), was an infamous is not clear that she has managed to institute much numerous music awards, she played and sang in projects which crossed the boundaries scandal despite some good reviews. Unknown to change: despite Shostakovich’s deliriously positive of art, music, poetry and dance. As a composer and performer, Barbara Buchholz has audiences, however, censors had forced massive cuts at music the plane makes its exit over the still drying horse- worked for a wide range of theatres; as artistic director she conceived and produced the last minute and Shostakovich’s desperate efforts to skin.