The Symphony No. 13 in
B-flat minor
B-flat minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C, D, E, F, G, and A. Its key signature has five flats. Its relative major is D-flat major and its parallel major is B-flat major. Its enharmonic equivalent, A-sharp m ...
,
Op. 36 by
Nikolai Myaskovsky was composed in 1933.
It is in one
movement
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* "Movement" (short story), a short story by Nancy Fu ...
in three sections:
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Andante
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* Andante (tempo), a moderately slow musical tempo
* ''Andante'' (manga), a shōjo manga by Miho Obana
* "Andante" (song), a song by Hitomi Yaida
* "Andante, Andante", a 1980 song by ABBA from ''Super Trouper''
* ' ...
moderato
#Agitato molto e tenebroso
#Andante nostalgico
Its premiere was conducted by
Leo Ginzburg
Leo Moritsevich Ginzburg (Лео Морицевич Гинзбург) (Warsaw, Vistula Land, Russian Empire April 12, 1901 – Moscow, Soviet Union November 1, 1979) was a Soviet conductor and pianist of Polish Jewish origin. He conducted the Mosc ...
. It received possibly its first performance in recent times on November 9, 1994 in a
BBC Radio 3
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broadcast from the
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by
Tadaaki Otaka
is a Japanese conductor.
Biography
Otaka studied composition, theory, and French horn, at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He was subsequently a conducting student of Hideo Saito.
Otaka has served as conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orches ...
.
Its central section contains a
fugato in
B minor
B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C, D, E, F, G, and A. Its key signature has two sharps. Its relative major is D major and its parallel major is B major.
The B natural minor scale is:
:
Changes neede ...
, and "peters out"
with quiet B minor dissonant chords.
It is among Myaskovsky's more
dissonant
In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive Sound, sounds. Within the Western tradition, some listeners associate consonance with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability, and dissonance with harshness ...
compositions.
The symphony lasts about 20 minutes in performance. It was apparently not published until 1945.
Recordings
*
Evgeny Svetlanov
Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov (russian: Евгéний Фёдорович Светлáнов; 6 September 1928 – 3 May 2002) was a Russian conductor, composer and a pianist.
Life and work
Svetlanov was born in Moscow and studied conducting wi ...
, Russian Academic Federation Symphony Orchestra (Russian Disc, Melodiya, Olympia OCD 733, Warner) (recorded between 1991 and 1993)
[ 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.]
References
External links
* (PD-CA only - public domain in the USA around 2040 or so, in the EU around 2026.)
13
1933 compositions
Compositions in B-flat minor
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