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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar.".(Sound Recording Review)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar." Mariss Jansons, Bavarian Radio Symphony and Chorus; Sergei Aleksashkin, soloist. EMI 7243 5 57902-2.
Based on a series of poems published by Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1961, the five movements of the Shostakovich's 1962 Symphony No. 13 mainly deplore Russia's anti-Semitism, from the massacre of several tens of thousands of minorities in Bielostok in 1905 to the killing of untold numbers of Jews, Russians, and Ukrainians by Germans in the valley of Babi Yar during the Second World War. But in addition to the subject of the Jewish problem in the USSR, the poems also reflect the question of how Russia was dealing in 1962 with past crimes against all of its own people. These tragedies are presented to the listener in huge, almost overwhelmingly somber tones, and any conductor's approach to them must be straightforward and dead serious. The words and sound are enough to convey the spirit and intent of the piece.
Jansons communicates well the sorrow and anguish of the work, as does the soloist, Sergei Aleksashkin, but don't expect a conventional symphony if you haven't heard it before. ...
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