SHOSTAKOVICH: -Symphony No 13 in B flat minor op 113-Dir. Valery Gergiev-Orq. Mariinsky theatre

Autor: Dmitri Shostakovich. Titulo: Symphony No 13 for bass solo, bass chorus and orchestra 'Babi Yar' in B flat minor op 113 Sinfonía n.º 13 para bajo solista, coro bajo y orquesta 'Babi Yar' en si bemol menor op 113 Director: Valery Gergiev Orquesta y Coros del Mariinsky Theatre Grabado en vivo, en los años 2013/14 Sala de Conciertos: Salle Pleyel - Paris - Francia I - Babi Yar: Adagio II - Humour: Allegretto III - In the Store: Adagio IV - Fears: Largo V - Career: Allegretto ... "For many, this is the most extraordinary of the symphonies written by Shostakovich. The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor (Op. 113) of Dmitri Shostakovich, subtitled Babi Yar, was completed on July 20, 1962 and was first presented in Moscow in December of that year.The one-hour work requires a bass soloist, a men's choir and a large orchestra and is presented in five movements, each of which is a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko This unusual form gives rise to several descriptions: choral symphony, song cycle, giant cantata.The five earthly vernacular poems denounce Soviet life one aspect at a time: brutality, cynicism, deprivation, anxiety, corruption ... symphony was originally conceived as a single-movement "vocal-symphonic poem." At the end of May, Shostakovich had found three additional poems by Yevtushenko, which made him expand the work into a choral symphony of the movement complementing the The theme of Babi Yar's Jewish suffering with Yevtushenko's verses about other Soviet abuses. Yevtushenko wrote the text for the fourth movement, "Fears", at the request of the composer. The composer completed these four additional movements in six weeks, putting the finishing touches on the symphony on July 20, 1962, "....