Waltz No 2 Dimitri Shostakovich Jazz Suite No 2 Symphonic Winds Sydney Youth Orchestra SYO

Dmitri Shostakovich s Waltz No 2 from Jazz Suite No 2 or Suite for Variety Orchestra. James Pensini conducting the Symphonic Wind Orchestra. Waltz No. 2 is famous as the opening title theme music of Eyes Wide Shut an erotic thriller fantasy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Waltz No 2 has been identified as part of Jazz Suite No. 2 however is now considered part of The Suite for Variety Orchestra (post1956), a suite in eight movements by Dmitri Shostakovich. The work consists of a collection of movements which derive from other works by the composer. For many years the Suite for Variety Orchestra was misidentified as the lost Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (1938), a different work in three movements that was lost during World War II, the piano score of which was rediscovered in 1999 by Manashir Yakubov, and orchestrated the following year by Gerard McBurney.