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| | SoundStage! Shostakovich - Hamlet, Music for the 1964 Film |
 | | In 1929, he wrote a score for the silent film, The New Babylon, which was to be played live while the movie was shown. |
 | | In spite of various efforts to record it, this music remains largely unknown to the public, with the exception of an excerpt from The Gadfly, which became famous in a Harry Rabinowitz arrangement as the theme for Public Televisions Reilly, Ace of Spies. |
 | | Good news, then, that Shostakovich composed over 30 film scores, so there is a lot material ready to encore this release, should Naxos want to start a multichannel Russian-film-score festival. |
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