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I. March II. Lyric Waltz III. Dance 1 IV. Waltz 1 V. Little Polka VI. Waltz 2 VII. Dance 2 VIII. Finale

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19 Responses to “Shostakovich Jazz Suite No. 2”

1. sithwriter says:

   August 20, 2012 at 1:50 am

   Dance 1 gives me images of riding around on a pony on a stick. Just me?

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2. rntbprz says:

   August 29, 2012 at 2:46 pm

   it was made for cabaret

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3. clrntddiaz123 says:

   September 6, 2012 at 5:00 am

   It was, but now that you mention it I can’t un-imagine it anymore.

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4. sithwriter says:

   September 6, 2012 at 11:49 am

   The intro sounds like anything by Sousa in my opinion.

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5. msmarya100 says:

   September 19, 2012 at 3:16 pm

   The little polka is simply joyous!

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6. Leyton Franklin says:

   September 30, 2012 at 7:37 am

   An artist that i love to listen when i need a pick me-up. I was told about him in guyana by an artist who painted to the music in the 60s and found the music when i arrived in Canada in 71.

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7. tscris13 says:

   October 12, 2012 at 3:29 pm

   Thanks for uploading! i love this

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8. Chus Fernandzrodz says:

   October 22, 2012 at 3:49 pm

   How you can one get out of the financial crisis, swallow, with migrating one , as? you are my Sweet love swallow and this music is for you!. Chus Fernández Rodríguez

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9. predoje says:

   October 29, 2012 at 3:10 am

   IS THIS JAZZ? I DONT THINK SO. 

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10. Sovvvv says:

    October 31, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    prodeej plz

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11. Sanitoeter666 says:

    November 26, 2012 at 10:36 am

    It was considered jazz when he wrote it. Back then, jazz wasn’t a lot more jazz-ish.

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12. FSRubyc says:

    November 28, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    This very light piece ( to Shostakovich standards) was composed to satisfy the ears of the kremlin gorillas. He was enormously pressed by the authorities to fit the model of music they had for the people’s revolution. He set the “jazz” word on the title because, to the soviets, jazz was american, but black people’s music, so it was an allowed as musical genre because it was composed/performed by an opressed etchnic group.

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13. GamesAndMoar says:

    December 3, 2012 at 1:44 am

    Mary Poppins 0.5 . No comment on that one.

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14. cicciontek says:

    December 12, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    I think that “Jazz” is just ironical, and refers only to the March than opens the suite, that is the only thing that reminds jazz. The second waltz even reminds Vienna and Strauss…
    So I also don’t think that communism or Stalin are related to this music, and the cold war was not started yet (not even the second WW).

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15. ThePodgoricaTribune says:

    January 16, 2013 at 7:16 pm

    Actually, according to Shostakovich’s biographers, this piece is actually the Suite for Variety Orchestra. There was a Jazz Suite No. 2 that was lost during WWII, and this was mistaken to be it.

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16. ThePodgoricaTribune says:

    January 16, 2013 at 7:18 pm

    This piece doesn’t sound Russian, it’s sounds more German/Bavarian.

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17. lennutsa says:

    January 23, 2013 at 9:50 pm

    I love the waltz <3

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18. likelore says:

    February 7, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    Correct, it’s the Suite for Variety Orchestra from the 1950s. Adapting rather variety or circus music, not jazz. However, a petty understanding of jazz is showing here when saying “jazz is american, therefore anything but communist” or Russian. Remember all those other classic European composers who adopted jazz harmonics, ragtime syncopes into classics, like Ravel, Kurt Weill, Strawinsky, Martinu, Debussy and many more. Embarassing to trivialize them or Shostakovich as communists.

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19. ftjpro says:

    February 16, 2013 at 10:45 pm

    I have to laugh at 6:27
    Tchaikovskied right in the face!

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