The film, set in a German-occupied Russian mining town, follows the heroic exploits of a group of young saboteurs. Shostakovich's music, while stirringly dramatic, includes some restraint in its treatment of the subject matter. "By The River" and "Death Of The Heroes" are, for me, instances of the composer's more sensitive moments in the score.
The film, set in a German-occupied Russian mining town, follows the heroic exploits of a group of young saboteurs. Shostakovich's music, while stirringly dramatic, includes some restraint in its treatment of the subject matter. "By The River" and "Death Of The Heroes" are, for me, instances of the composer's more sensitive moments in the score.
26:47 a reference to the ending of the first movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 3?
22:12 part IV in eighth quartet