Symphony No.13 In B Flat minor, Op.113, I. Adagio: "Babi Yar" - Part One

Performed by: Marius Rintzler, Bernard Haitink. Gentlemen from the Choir of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._13_%28Shostakovich%29

The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor (Op. 113, subtitled Babi Yar) by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed in Moscow on December 18, 1962 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the basses of the Republican State and Gnessin Institute Choirs, under Kirill Kondrashin (after Yevgeny Mravinsky refused to conduct the work). The soloist was Vitali Gromadsky. This work has been variously called a song cycle and a choral symphony since the composer included settings of poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko that concerned the World War II Babi Yar massacre and other topics. The five poems Shostakovich set to music (one poem per movement) are earthily vernacular and cover every aspect of Soviet life:

Shostakovich takes his critique of the Soviet regime in this work to the farthest that he would publicly in his lifetime. Even so he does not engage in outright dissent; he broaches subjects open to discussion more or less freely while not actually questioning the basis of the regime itself. The criticism in which Shostakovich engages here was actually the bounds tolerated at the end of Nikita Khrushchev's premiership.

Babi Yar: Adagio:

In this movement, Shostakovich and Yevtushenko transform the mass murder by Nazis of Jews in Babi Yar, near Kiev, into a denunciation of anti-Semitism in all its forms. (Although the Soviet government did not erect a monument at Babi Yar, it still became a place of pilgrimage for Soviet Jews.) Shostakovich sets the poem as a series of theatrical episodes—the Dreyfus affair, the Belostok pogroms and the story of Anne Frank—as extended interludes to the main theme of the poem, lending the movement the dramatic structure and theatrical imagery of opera while resorting to graphic illustration and vivid word-painting. For instance, the mocking of the imprisoned Dreyfus by poking umbrellas at him through the prison bars may be in an accentuated pair of quarter-notes in the brass, with the build-up of menace in the Anne Frank episode, culminating in the musical image of the breaking down of the door to the Franks' hiding place, which underlines the hunting down of that family.

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[DeutscherPatriot100]

how great!!!

[L0rdR4hl]

@DeutscherPatriot100

Yeah, it is a very great performance. I love the bass trombone in this, being a bass trombone player myself.

[ziegfried666]

la mejor interpretación que escuché....