Fanfare, July 1st, 2007
SHOSTAKOVICH The Golden Ago * José Serebrier, cond; Royal Scottish Natl O * NAXOS 8.570217 (2 CDs: 143:42)
Picture, if you will, a Soviet football team in the 1920s visiting a Western city during an industrial exhibition. All the decadence, corruption, and bureaucracy that those running dogs of capitalism could muster, thrown at the innocent youth of the Volga basin. But our boys triumph! This is the scenario of Shostakovich's The Golden Age, a ballet premiered in 1930. Let's not laugh too hard; every society has its myths. Young iconoclastic ones paint their myths in slightly brighter color...
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