Gergiev & Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra: Shostakovich, Salle Pleyel

About the Event

Written two years after the monumental Seventh, Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony was hailed as a 'patriotic hymn' by Stalin's regime. Experience this chilling tribute, subtitled the 'Stalingrad' Symphony, together with the composer's Twelfth Symphony--dedicated to the memory of Lenin.

This pair of towering musical works reveals the conflict, terror, and deception felt by Shostakovich at the perversion of the original ideals of the 1917 revolution.