Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Shostakovich)
The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a composition by Dmitri Shostakovich.
The suite was built in 1938 for the newly established Soviet government Jazz Orchestra Victor Knuschewitzki and was first performed on 28 November 1938 in Moscow. In the turmoil of the Second World War, the score was lost.
After 1988 temporarily to another plant Shostakovich, the Suite for Variety Orchestra, had been wrongly identified as Jazz Suite No. 2, 1999, a piano reduction was found three sets of the work. Since the original score is still missing, the British composer Gerard McBurney created at the request of Shostakovich's widow a reconstructed orchestration of the suite, which was premiered in London on 9 September 2000 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis as part of the Proms concerts.
Notwithstanding this rediscovery most CD recordings as well as the soundtrack to designate the movie Eyes Wide Shut (1999) by Stanley Kubrick, the Suite for Variety Orchestra falsely as Jazz Suite No. 2