Suite_for_Jazz_Orchestra_No._2_(Shostakovich)

Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2

Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2

Partially lost instrumental suite by Dmitri Shostakovich

The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Russian: Сюита для джазового оркестра №2) is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1937 in Moscow (Moscow Radio) by the State Jazz Orchestra. The score was lost during World War II, but a piano score of the work was rediscovered in 1999 by Manashir Yakubov. Three movements of the suite were reconstructed and orchestrated by Gerard McBurney, and were premiered at a The Proms in London in 2000.

This article is about the partially lost 1938 score by Shostakovich, reconstructed by Gerard McBurney. For the 1950s suite that includes the "Waltz No. 2", see Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1.

The Suite, in its reconstructed form, consists of the following movements:

  1. Scherzo
  2. Lullaby
  3. Serenade

Prior to its rediscovery, another eight-movement suite by Shostakovich had been misidentified and recorded as the second Jazz Suite. That work is now correctly known as the Suite for Variety Orchestra.

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