Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: Leningrad

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The Royal Philharmomonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko present three composers whose works were influenced by political turmoil: Shostakovich, Hindemith and Adams.

As Hitler’s armies surrounded the city of Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich sat down and composed his Seventh Symphony. Written for massed battalions of musicians, this is music from the front line – a spectacular hymn of defiance from an unbreakable city. It’s a long‐awaited landmark in Vasily Petrenko and the Orchestra’s acclaimed Shostakovich symphony cycle, and it’ll leave you reeling. First, though, two modern masters tweak the whiskers of tyranny: Hindemith’s feisty ballet‐suite was banned by the Nazis, while John Adams “foxtrot for orchestra” turns communist propaganda into high camp. Political scandals weren’t meant to be this much fun!

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