"It is the greatest disaster that has ever befallen any great city, and that includes Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all the contenders," Brian Moynahan, author of Leningrad: Siege and Symphony ...

In an act of defiance during World War Two, starving musicians in the besieged city of Leningrad performed Shostakovich's new Seventh Symphony. The piece was composed especially for the city ...

Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev was originally scheduled to lead the famous Leningrad Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich. The Leningrad has been cancelled and Sokhiev will not be on the podium.

But on Thursday night, principal percussionist Joseph Petrasek drew the focus during the opening movement of Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" by Dmitri Shostakovich. Petrasek, who joined the ASO in ...

Exuberant & Witty. Performed by Russia’s eminent cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, and the visiting Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, the 28-minute concerto emerged as a work of compelling rhythms ...

The Mount Rushmore State is the setting for us to explore Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, also known as the “Leningrad Symphony.” The piece was composed during the Siege of Leningrad when ...

He served as Assistant Principal Cellist with the Leningrad Symphony and with the Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra. Kogan moved to the United States in 1991 and is now principal cellist ...

Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6 was premiered by the Leningrad Symphony in 1947. It premiered to great acclaim in the Soviet Union; the world premiere audience reportedly gave the work a 30-minute ...

Death and suffering haunt it. But amid bombs bursting in Leningrad Shostakovich had also heard the chords of victory. In the symphony’s last movement the triumphant brasses prophesy what ...

leading Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” symphony. “I was shaking,” the viola leader recalled of that day in Prague’s Rudolfinum. “He smiled at me and from this moment, I knew that I can ...