to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture over the barbarism of war.

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 ...

He tells the extraordinary story of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, performed and broadcast as a symbol of hope in the midst of the horrifying siege of Leningrad during World War Two. Features ...