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For this titanic wartime work, the Symphony pulled out all stops, delivering one of the year's most memorable performances.
While the Red Army was bringing the victory closer, this famous music manifesto of resistance against Nazism was performed in ...
Guest conductor Jonathon Heyward also led the orchestra in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, with Benjamin Grosvenor as soloist ...
A performance of the rarely heard “Symphony No. 4” revealed Gianandrea Noseda’s keen understanding of Shostakovich’s music.
As part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony is given a stunning visual direction by Kirill Serebrennikov to match the RPO's gripping playing.
New Jersey Symphony will present its Season Finale concerts with Music Director Xian Zhang conducting Shostakovich's Fifth ...
Leningrad (now St Petersburg) was the home city of composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and his Seventh Symphony was named in honour of the besieged city. The music is Shostakovich at his most triumphant ...
He tells the extraordinary story of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, performed and broadcast as a symbol of hope in the midst of the horrifying siege of Leningrad during World War Two. Features ...