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Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony

Name: Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony
Start: 2025-04-27T15:00:00
Location: Royal Festival Hall

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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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...

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7

Composer

Kurt Weill - Four Walt Whitman Songs

Composer

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia

Composer

Participants

Vasily Petrenko

Conductor

Roderick Williams

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