Symphony no. 13, op. 113 in B flat minor "Babi Yar"

Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 in B-flat minor, "Babi Yar", is a symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed and premiered in 1962. Scored for bass soloist, male chorus and orchestra, it uses austere orchestral textures and direct, declamatory vocal writing to set poems addressing wartime atrocities and social protest, and represents a politically charged late-period work that intensified Shostakovich's engagement with public commentary in Soviet-era composition.