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蕭士塔高維契: 第13號交響曲(巴比雅) / 佩爾特: 心靈深處
亞伯.多門 低音男中音
約翰.史托加德 指揮
BBC愛樂管弦樂團
愛沙尼亞國家男聲合唱團

John Storgards's acclaimed series of Shostakovich symphonies continues with this recording of Symphony No. 13. The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the bassbaritone Albert Dohmen and the Estonian National Male Choir. The symphony, subtitled 'Babiy Yar', caused a great deal of tension and controversy in the lead-up to its premiere, in December 1962 – not because of the music, but the poetry. Shostakovich had chosen to set Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Babiy Yar. Ostensibly an outraged response to the lack of a memorial for the thousands of Jews murdered by the Nazis and dumped in a ravine near Kyiv, the poem implicitly criticised the anti-Semitism then still rife in the Soviet Union. Originally planned as a short cantata, the work grew in stature as Shostakovich chose additional poems by Yevtushenko for inclusion, finally settling on the form of a five-movement symphony. The tone of the poems was as near to being openly subversive as any Soviet literary material could be at the time without actually being banned by the authorities, but the eventual premiere was a triumph. Arvo Part's De profundis was composed for male voices, organ, and percussion in 1980. Here we hear the composer's later adaptation of the piece for male voices and chamber orchestra, from 2008. The short work is a perfect example of the style the composer termed 'tintinnabuli' and an aesthetic that others would later label 'holy minimalism'.

SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
A Child of Our Time

Oratorio for Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra
with Text and Music by Michael Tippett

Part I: 22:21
Part II: 20:55
Part III: 20:20

Total time: 63:24
Choral: BBC Symphony Chorus
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Igor Yuzefovich leader
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis