Thomas Sanderling on the Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar' from Dmitri Shostakovich | Music Documentary

Dmitri Shostakovich's (1906 - 1975) Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 113, with the epithet 'Babi Yar', is a musical memorial to an unimaginable atrocity: in September 1941, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered almost 34,000 Jews in Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev. Twenty years later, Shostakovich composed his 13th Symphony for orchestra, male choir and solo bass in memory of this massacre - and also because the government of the Soviet Union at the time prevented a memorial from being erected at the site of the mass murder. The textual basis for the vocal parts of the five-movement symphony are five poems by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932 - 2017).
In this music documentary, the German-Russian conductor Thomas Sanderling, who knew Shostakovich himself, tells the eventful story of Shostakovich's heavily meaningful symphony. Sanderling can be considered an expert on the Babi Yar Symphony: Not only did he conduct the German premiere in 1973, but he has performed it many times since. In 2021 Thomas Sanderling and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin were invited by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC) to perform Shostakovich's Thirteenth at the commemoration ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the massacre.
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[@dieterbarkhoff1328]

Kudos, Thomas Sanderling.

[@kraussthecat8738]

That's a huge tragedy

[@stefaniegodeke3357]

Sehr gut auch in verbaler Kommentierung!

[@siriojanicolaev3389]

💐🙏!

[@emigdioluisgarciaaguilar2738]

Shosta ... Grande ! Triste, bastante triste, lo sucedido en " babi yar ", cuando el mundo era pretendido por una pandilla de criminales y bandidos.

[@paoladeafcellist]

♥️🎵🎵

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Jw