Release Date: 02 July 2021
Label: Willowhayne Records - Cd / Willowhayne Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4038912412501
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Dmitri Shostakovich
Description
In 1961 the then twenty-nine-year-old Yevgeny Yevtushenko published a poem entitled Babi Yar in the Literaturnaya gazeta. Babi Yar was the name of a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev which in 1941 had been the scene of a mass execution where, within the space of thirty-six hours, some 34,000 Jewish men, women and children were shot by a special unit of the German SS. In his poem Yevtushenko used the National Socialists‘ act of genocide as the starting-point of an attack on anti-Semitism in general, which he pilloried as a timeless evil that was widespread throughout the world, but which, he implied, was especially rife in Russia. Few Russian composers of the past were above reproach as far as anti-Semitism was concerned. Of these, the two that spring most immediately to mind are Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich. Shostakovich had already revealed his philo-Semitic sympathies in his song-cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry, written during the final years of Stalinism (when anti-Semitism was even officially condoned) but forced to wait until 1955 for its first performance.
GORBACH/KISTEN
EXQUARTET/SAXAS
Duo Coincidencia
DUO AUROUS
Walter G. Alcock; George D. Cunningham; Marcel Dupré; Herbert Ellingford; Reginald Goss-Custard; Ge
The Cirrus String Quartet
TBILISI SO/DJANSUG KAKHIDZE
TBILISI SO/DJANSUG KAKHIDZE
