BBC Proms · SEASON 64

Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony

Episode 3 · 2010-07-22

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Episode overview

Suzy Klein presents from the Royal Albert Hall as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under their principal conductor Thierry Fischer, perform Prokofiev's audacious First Piano Concerto with soloist Alexander Toradze and Shostakovich's monumental Seventh Symphony, composed in 1941 while Leningrad lay under German siege.

180 minutes

Season 64 episodes