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Jazz Suite No. 2: VI. Waltz 2

USSR State Symphony Orchestra

classical

Shostakovich's Waltz No. 2, from what is usually printed as the Jazz Suite No. 2 and is in fact the Suite for Variety Orchestra — a misattribution so widespread that the wrong title has effectively won.

It is the piece Kubrick used to open Eyes Wide Shut, which is why a Soviet light-music waltz now reads to most people as faintly sinister rather than cheerful.