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

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Direzione d'orchestra

Vasily Petrenko

Orchestra

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Roderick Williams

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Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony

Londra

Regno Unito

Royal Festival Hall

Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony: Finlandia, Op. 26 Sibelius (+2 More)

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Finlandia

Four Walt Whitman Songs

Sinfonia n. 7 in do maggiore, op. 60

Jnanakumar P

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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 stupendous climax to a concert that’s all about struggle and resistance: whether it’s Sibelius defying Russian imperialism with a mighty hymn to his native Finland or the poet Walt Whitman’s pleas for tolerance, set to music by the exiled Kurt Weill. Singing them today is the fabulous British baritone Roderick Williams: a born communicator at the heart of a truly epic programme.

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Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony by Sibelius, Weill, Shostakovich, dom 27 apr 2025, Da (2025/2025), Direttore d'orchestra Vasily Petrenko, Royal Festival Hall, Londra, Regno Unito

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