Symphony_No._13_(Myaskovsky)

Symphony No. 13 (Myaskovsky)

Symphony No. 13 (Myaskovsky)

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The Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 by Nikolai Myaskovsky was composed in 1933.

It is in one movement[1] in three sections:[2]

  1. Andante moderato
  2. Agitato molto e tenebroso
  3. Andante nostalgico

Its premiere was conducted by Leo Ginzburg. It received possibly its first performance in recent times on November 9, 1994[3] in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki Otaka.[1]
Its central section contains a fugato in B minor, and "peters out"[1] with quiet B♭ minor dissonant chords.[4]

It is among Myaskovsky's more dissonant compositions.[1]

The symphony lasts about 20 minutes in performance.[5] It was apparently not published until 1945.

Recordings

  • Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian Academic Federation Symphony Orchestra (Russian Disc, Melodiya, Olympia OCD 733, Warner) (recorded between 1991 and 1993)[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Review of Olympia CD of Symphonies 3 and 13". March 2002. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  2. [2]
    van Rijen, Onno. "Miaskovsky Opus List". Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  3. [3]
    "CADENSA search". Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  4. [4]
    observation from score.
  5. [5]
    20 minutes both in Svetlanov's recording and in Rozhdestvenskii's broadcast recording.
  6. [6]
    "Library Reference for Recording Dates". Retrieved 4 January 2010. The reference does not note that the other work on the CD, Symphony No. 3, was recorded several decades earlier by Svetlanov and not re-recorded for this cycle.


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