and we’re doing something similar this spring with our two May concerts of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony.” The new season will also see a few changes, some more visible than others.

An acclaimed account of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony given in London in December won fresh laurels for conductor and orchestra. Bychkov made a name for himself in the West after leaving Leningrad ...

The Leningrad Symphony has been used as a political football almost from its inception and continues to be so. Those rabidly hostile to the Soviet Union claim that its composer Dmitri Shostakovich was ...

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 ...

It was first produced in 1934 in Leningrad and Moscow. There were almost 200 performances of the opera by the end of 1936. The microfilmed score of the 7th symphony was smuggled out of Russia ...