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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" (Kirill Kondrashin; BRSO - 1980)


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Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
  1. Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 - "Babi Yar": 1. Babi Yar (Adagio)
  2. Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 - "Babi Yar": 2. Humour (Allegretto)
  3. Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 - "Babi Yar": 3. In the Store (Adagio)
  4. Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 - "Babi Yar": 4. Fears (Largo)
  5. Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 - "Babi Yar": 5. Career (Allegretto)

John Shirley-Quirk, bass
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus' Men
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Kondrashin, conductor

Date: 1980
Label: Philips

Kirill Kondrashin is the conductor who conducted the premier of Shostakovich's 13th symphony on 18 December 1962 with the Moscow Philharmonic and bass soloist Vitaly Gromadsky, after Evgeny Mravinsky refused to conduct the work.

John Shirley-Quirk is the bass soloist in the Western premier of this symphony on 14 September 1971 with Charles Groves conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

This recording, which is made in 1980, has some text lines that censored in Kondrashin's previous Melodiya performances.

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Dmitri Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Shostakovich's music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; the composer was also heavily influenced by the neo-classical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky, and (especially in his symphonies) by the post-Romanticism associated with Gustav Mahler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich

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Kirill Kondrashin (6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1914 – 7 March 1981) was a Russian conductor. He was the artistic director of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra from 1960 to 1975 and premiered Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4 and No. 13 during this period. He left the Soviet Union in December 1978 while touring in the Netherlands and sought political asylum there. Kondrashin took the post of Permanent Guest Conductor of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in the same year and remained in that position until his death.

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