Beginning the program was J.S. Bach’s spirited Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major. Tessa Lark and flutist Alex Sopp, both ...

During a trip to Russia I found life dictated by an insatiable drive for upward mobility and consumption, but pragmatism when ...

Within a month the cellist travelled the 700 kilometres from Moscow to Leningrad to hear Shostakovich play the ... Writer Miranda Ilchef ahead of his performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, ...

and Boston Symphony (54) for the massive – and massively loud – Leningrad Symphony. Although the two orchestras have performed side by side in Boston, this was their first joint venture in Leipzig. It ...

The highlight of the event is Symphony No. 7, known as ‘Leningrad’, which denounces war and totalitarianism. A message that is now more relevant than ever.

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been prosecuted for calling for peace in Ukraine and says she feels "hurt" over ...

Russian activist Lyudmila Vasilyeva, an 84-year-old survivor of the siege of Leningrad in World War Two, has been fined by a court after protesting Russia's war in Ukraine. During her sentencing ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been prosecuted for calling for peace in Ukraine and says she feels "hurt" over what ...