Crime and Punishment: One Act Ballet is a ballet for full orchestra and soloists based on the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The form of the piece is based on the form of the novel, but as the means of literature are different of the means of music, an adaptation of the plot of the novel was revealed necessary. Only the most significant happenings in the plot of the novel are present in the piece. All passages in which a description of psychological characteristics of the main characters is presented in the novel were translated into musical images. Crime and Punishment: One Act Ballet is orchestrated for full orchestra and soloists. The soloists represent the main characters which also are represented by the soloist dancers. So, each of the main characters are represented in two ways exactly like it happens in Igor Stravinsky's Le Noces. Although the piece is meant to be staged as a ballet it can be played in a concert hall as concert music.

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