Symphony No. 13 (Myaskovsky)

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. "Review of Olympia CD of Symphonies 3 and 13". March 2002. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
2. van Rijen, Onno. "Miaskovsky Opus List". Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
3. "CADENSA search". Retrieved 4 January 2010.
4. observation from score.
5. 20 minutes both in Svetlanov's recording and in Rozhdestvenskii's broadcast recording.
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.

External links

• Symphony No. 13 (Myaskovsky): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (PD-CA only - public domain in the USA around 2040 or so, in the EU around 2026.)