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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yaar"
Release Date: March 27, 2007 88697021632 CD Longplay One of shostakovich's greatest symhonies, the work sets poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko on the World War II Babi Yar massacre and other topics. The first poem, Babi Yar, implicily criticizes Soviet anti-Semitism. The symphony was completed during a thaw in Soviet censorship, but even so, Nikita Khrushchev criticized it before the premiere and threatened to stop its performance. The premiere went ahead, but afterwards Yevtushenko was forced to add a stanza to his poem claiming that Russians and Ukranians died alongside the Jews at Babi Yar. Until recently, the work was infrequently performed. Shostakovich originally intended the first movement to stand by itself, but his ideas hept coming to him and he had to expand the work into its current symphonic form. Performed by fellow Russians conductor Yuri Temirkanov, bass Sergei Aleksashkin and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, this new Shostakovich recording is an album of fireworks and beauty. |
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Track listing for CD Longplay Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 "Babi Yar" 2 I. Babi Yar (Adagio) 3 II. Yumor (Allegretto) 4 III. V magazine (Adagio) 5 IV. Strakhi (Largo) 6 V. Karera (Allegretto) |
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