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]

Its premiere was conducted by Leo Ginzburg. It received possibly its first performance in recent times on 9 November 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]

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

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.)

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