For this titanic wartime work, the San Diego Symphony pulled out all stops, delivering one of the year's most memorable ...

Guest conductor Jonathon Heyward also led the orchestra in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, with Benjamin Grosvenor as soloist ...

While the Red Army was bringing the victory closer, this famous music manifesto of resistance against Nazism was performed in ...

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.

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 ...