Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'

Choral shortcomings apart, this makes a fine epilogue to Vasily Petrenko's magnificent Liverpool Shostakovich cycle...Alexander Vinogradov is the finest bass interpreter here since Sergey Alexashkin,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2014
Catalogue No: 8573218
Label: Naxos
Series: Vasily Petrenko Shostakovich Symphonies
Length: 59 minutes

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'

59:35

$15.75

$18.95

$27.55

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Huddersfield Choral Society, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko
Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
Recorded: 27-29 September 2013
Recording Venue: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, England

I. Babi Yar: Adagio

15:45

$4.20

$5.05

$7.35

II. Yumor (Humour): Allegretto

7:27

$2.10

$2.50

$3.70

III. V Magazine (In the Store): Adagio

12:34

$3.15

$3.80

$5.50

IV. Strachi (Fears): Largo

11:05

$3.15

$3.80

$5.50

V. Kariera (A Career): Allegretto

12:44

$3.15

$3.80

$5.50

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Recording of the Week, Vasily Petrenko completes his cycle of Shostakovich symphonies

22nd September 2014

David listens to the final instalment in Vasily Petrenko's Shostakovich symphony cycle with the RLPO, the dark and angry No. 13 in B flat minor ('Babi Yar').

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.

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November 2014

Choral shortcomings apart, this makes a fine epilogue to Vasily Petrenko's magnificent Liverpool Shostakovich cycle...Alexander Vinogradov is the finest bass interpreter here since Sergey Alexashkin, with a lithe freshness all his own...do investigate Petrenko's unexpected subtlety and lightness.

27th September 2014

a performance crackling with electricity.

October 2014

Petrenko's nose for characterisation and his often startling attention to the dynamics of the piece make it feel not counterfeit at all but rather something he made earlier in his home city of St Petersburg...[Vinogradov] deploys his haunting head voice to poignant, almost unearthly effect.

5th Observer 2014

The power this performance accumulates at the climaxes of the second and third movement is lacerating; the men’s choruses may not sound totally Russian, but Alexander Vinogradov is a superb bass soloist, and Vasily Petrenko is as good at gloomy introspection as he is at brittle confrontation

10th November 2014

With Petrenko’s ear for detail and his instincts for symphonic shape and dramatic flux, this is a disc that stands comparison with the generally acknowledged classic 1962 recording by Kirill Kondrashin (recently re-released on Praga), and it does so with pungent emotional force.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113 'Babi Yar'

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Recording of the Week, Vasily Petrenko completes his cycle of Shostakovich symphonies