Name: Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony
Start: 2025-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Festival Hall

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko

Orchestra

Singer

Roderick Williams

Voice

Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

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

Public

Concert

Finaldia Op.26

Four Walt Whitman Songs (For voice and Orchestra)

Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60

Jnanakumar P

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Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

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Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

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Spoken

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, Od (2025/2025), Dirigent Vasily Petrenko, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

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