Kirill Kondrashin / Moscow Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 Babi Yar/Incidental music for King Lear Condition:New in Palermo

in Palermo

Spontaneous and beautifully recorded over two days in Rio in 2012

The band's individual members are all renowned musicians whose solo projects have met with high acclaim (Dorota Barová

all of which are featured here

Kirill Kondrashin / Moscow Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 Babi Yar/Incidental music for King Lear Condition:New in Palermo"Most important, historically, is the Moscow recording of the original 1962 version of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 (with the bass Vitaly Gromadsky), using Yevtushenko's (pre censored) text commemorating the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar Yevtushenko's original ('I feel myself a Jew'), was what the anti Semitic Soviet government would have no truck with. So it's significant this is once again made available, especially in such a memorably intense