Symphony No 7 'Leningrad'

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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 7 'Leningrad'
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)

[ Naxos SACD / SACD ]

Release Date: Friday 2 April 2004

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Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has been regarded as an uninhibited response to the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 - the ensuing siege of Leningrad lasting for 870 days and costing over a million lives.