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Shchedrin: Carmen Suite; Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2.
Carmen Suite; Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2. Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra. DG 289 471 136-2.
Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932) mostly weathered the storms of Soviet musical repression in the fifties and sixties, only to find favor in the latter stages of the Communist regime and, of course, today hailed as one of Russia's leading composers. His "Carmen Suite" from 1967 was initially banned by the government on the grounds that it was "an insult to Bizet's masterpiece and for its sexual treatment of the character of Carmen." Thanks to the intervention of Shchedrin's friend, Dmitri Shostakovich, did it become accepted.
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