Composer Rodion Shchedrin (1970)

Violins are lying around – general.

Composer Rodion Shchedrin and conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky at a rehearsal of the orchestra learning a piece by Shchedrin; conversation during the rehearsal (synchronously) – various.

A musician plays the flute (rehearsal) – short.

Orchestra musicians play the trumpets – rehearsal – medium, short. R. Shchedrin at a rehearsal of his oratorio for symphony orchestra, soloists, and choir dedicated to V.I. Lenin; talking with a chorister, with a musician.

The Great Hall of the Conservatory during a performance by the symphony orchestra, soloists, and choir – general (from the balcony).

The symphony orchestra, choir, and soloist Lyudmila Zykina perform R. Shchedrin’s oratorio dedicated to V.I. Lenin.

The stage and the first rows of the stalls – general.

Lyudmila Zykina sings a fragment from the oratorio "Sleep peacefully, dear Ilyich..." (synchronously).

Picturesque landscapes of the central Russian strip - general.

Poland.

The Volga River, coastal meadows under a cloudy sky - Poland, general. (with v/t).

Landscapes of fields, wheat swaying in the wind - general.

Glade with dandelions - cf.

Glade with daisies next to a field of wheat - cf.

Edge of a birch forest.

White ridge of clouds over a field of grain - general.

Birches with long braids of thin branches swaying in the wind.

Winter.

Ryazan village - general.

Evening summer landscape, two horses walking on a sandbank on a river - general.

Village street in the evening - general.

The disk of the moon, reflected on the surface of calm water, then sways on the ripples of the water - cf.

Two girls on an evening walk in the village sing ditties to the accordion (synchronously).

Round dance on the village street - young people sing and dance with the accordion (synchronously) (evening festivities).

Girls and boys are walking along a country road in a field in the evening; one of the boys is playing the accordion, the girls are singing.

A village in the evening – general.

Panorama.

Sunbeams in the forest – cf.

A musician is playing the trumpet (synchronously) – cf.

The Soviet Union champions in ice dancing Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov are dancing to the music of R. Shchedrin's "Merry Ditties" (voice-over).

A dance to Russian music is being filmed in a television studio (synchronously).

The television equipment is working, the artists are dancing.

The ensemble is finishing the dance – freeze frame.

The building of the Great Hall of the Conservatory – general. (summer).

The monument to P.I. Tchaikovsky near the Conservatory building.

Panorama of the windows of the Conservatory, where Rodion Shchedrin studied, he graduated from the conservatory in composition and piano. R. Shchedrin working on the score.

A functioning metronome – cf.

Newsreel from 1941: Moscow during the war (winter and summer).

Soldiers carry a hot air balloon along Gorky Street – cf.

Tanks drive along a city street, tanks drive past a monument to Pushkin. R. Shchedrin working on a piece of music that he is composing to the verses of Alexander Tvardovsky, about the Great Patriotic War.

Various monuments to the defenders of our homeland from the Nazi invaders – cf.

Tombstones in a mass cemetery, a hand places a carnation on one of them.

The inscription on the slab "Zubkov Alexey Vasilyevich 1912-1944. 20.XII." - cf.

Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, a memorial ensemble in honor of the defenders of the homeland on the mound – common.

Poland.

The face of a 3-year-old girl – cf.

A man's sorrowful face – ed.

A monument – a high hill with a five-pointed star and an inscription on the slab: "To the heroes who fell on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge".

From the youth associations of Orel, Kursk, Belgorod, Tula, Kharkov, Lipetsk.

A slab with the inscription "Glory to the heroes who died a brave death" – ed.

Flowers at various monuments to Soviet soldiers – Wed, general, ed.

Eternal flames burn at the graves of Soviet soldiers – ed.

People lay flowers on the graves of soldiers – various.

Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery – general.

People of different ages – men, women – a young soldier at a monument in the cemetery – ed.

Sorrowful faces of women (elderly, old, one woman in mourning) – ed.

A monument to the victims of fascism in Salaspils (Latvia) "Unbroken" - a figure of a man rising from the ground; "Humiliated" - a woman kneeling - in a wide field, on the site of a former concentration camp (rectangular sculptures carved from concrete) - Wed, ed.

Sculpture Motherland at Piskarevskoye Cemetery.

Pupils of the Suvorov Military School, grandmother with grandson at the cemetery - Wed, ed.

An old woman knelt at the grave of a soldier - ed.

Three burning candles on the grave of a soldier in a field - ed.

A broken helmet, overgrown with daisies, lies in the field.

The "Anti-tank hedgehogs" monument on the 23rd kilometer of the Leningradskoye Highway, erected in honor of the fallen heroes-defenders of the capital.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Anti-tank barriers on the streets of Moscow.

Guns installed on Moscow streets.

Balloon at the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

A herd of cows is driven past the Bolshoi Theatre, camouflaged during the war.

The Bolshoi Theatre today, a fountain is playing in the park near the theatre. R. Shchedrin at the piano – working on the ballet “Carmen Suite”; talks about his work on this ballet (synchronously).

Drawings by P. Picasso on themes from P. Mérimée’s “Carmen” – various.

The auditorium of the Bolshoi Theatre – general.

Poland.

The orchestra pit, musicians lay out their instruments before the start of the performance “Carmen Suite”: the violin, cello, and percussion instruments. R. Shchedrin at the piano talks with Maya Plisetskaya, who is rehearsing the role of Carmen from the ballet “Carmen Suite”.

Maya Plisetskaya repeats individual steps.

The score of the ballet “Carmen Suite” by Bizet and Shchedrin - kr.

The musicians' hands play the instruments selected for performing the music of Bizet-Shchedrin's "Carmen Suite" - short.

Maya Plisetskaya as Carmen and N. Fadeechev as Jose perform a short fragment from the ballet.

A hand plays the castanets - short.

A scene from the finale of the ballet "Carmen Suite" (synchronously).

Backstage, R. Shchedrin kisses M. Plisetskaya after performing in the ballet "Carmen Suite".

Shchedrin and Plisetskaya's dacha in the Moscow region - short (spring). R. Shchedrin and Plisetskaya on a walk in the forest and in a meadow among flowers. R. Shchedrin is fishing in a river at dawn, watching the water flow. R. Shchedrin driving a car on a Moscow street - medium, short (May).

Passers-by on the streets of Moscow.

The orchestra under the direction of Evgeny Svetlanov rehearses individual sections of R. Shchedrin's 2nd Piano Concerto, which he called "Dialogues", "improvisation"; "contrasts" with the participation of the composer.

At the Tallinn Philharmonic, the State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Evgeny Svetlanov performs R. Shchedrin's 2nd Piano Concerto, the composer plays the piano part (synchronously).

Shchedrin's hands on the keys of the piano (playing stormy music) – cr. R. Shchedrin plays the piano at the concert.

The orchestra musicians play various instruments – general, medium (synchronously).