Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar), conducted by Ormandy

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 (“Babi Yar“) (on poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko) Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra with the Male Chorus of the Mendelssohn Club, Philadelphia Tom Krause, baritone Recorded January 21 and 23, 1970 (following the Western premiere of the work by the same artists), in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, and released as RCA Red Seal LSC-3162. It was the first recording of the work outside the Soviet Union, and the first professionally-made one anywhere.. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 is in five movements, the last three of which are played without pause: