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BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Babiy Yar is a ravine in the city of Kiev where, between 1941 and 1943, Nazi troops executed overlOO.OOO people, many Jewish. Christopher Cook presents a concert given on Saturday and including Shostakovich's musical response to those events.
Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), Julian Bliss
(clarinet), BBC Symphony Chorus (mens' voices), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
Shostakovich Symphony No 13 (Babiy Yar)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Bass:
Sergei Aleksashkin
Bass:
Julian Bliss
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Source: Radio Times

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