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Shostakovich - Symphony No.13 ’Babi-Yar’ | Naxos 8573218

Shostakovich - Symphony No.13 ’Babi-Yar’

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573218

Barcode: 0747313321872

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th September 2014

International Record Review Outstanding

Contents

Artists

Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
Huddersfield Choral Society
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

Works

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony no.13 in B flat minor, op.113 'Babi-Yar'

Artists

Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
Huddersfield Choral Society
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

About

Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No.13, Op.113 in 1962, the climax of his ‘Russian period’ and, in its scoring for bass soloist, male chorus and orchestra, among the most Mussorgskian of his works.

It attracted controversy through its settings of poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (the ‘Russian Bob Dylan’ of his day) – not least the first movement, where the poet underlines the plight of Jews in Soviet society. The other movements are no less pertinent in their observations on the relationship between society and the individual.

This is the final release in Vasily Petrenko’s internationally acclaimed symphonic cycle.

Petrenko’s cycle has thus far received huge international acclaim, winning accolades from The Sunday Times, Gramophone, IRR, Fanfare, BBC Music Magazine etc.

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