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Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony
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As Hitler’s armies surrounded the city of Leningrad, and bombs rained down on a starving population, Dmitri Shostakovich sat down and – somehow – composed his Seventh Symphony. Written for massed battalions of musicians, this is music from the front line: a roar of defiance from an unbreakable city. You can hear it this afternoon conducted by Vasily Petrenko, whose recording of the piece was described by one critic as ‘devastating’. It’s a stupen...
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1 dates (27 Apr - 27 Apr)
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27
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3:00 pm
Royal Festival Hall
London, United Kingdom
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