Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op 60, 'Leningrad'
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Recording date: 18 April 2013
Date of broadcast: 18 April 2013
That Shostakovich wrote much of his 7th Symphony whilst living in the besieged Leningrad of 1941 is perhaps key to its overwhelming power. The famous 鈥榠nvasion music鈥� of the first movement starts with a distant military snare drum accompanying a seemingly simple and non-threatening melody. Structurally, the music is a little like Ravel鈥檚 'Bolero', with the melody and its rhythms being continually repeated, developed and growing in volume, but dramatically it couldn鈥檛 be more different; it鈥檚 an intense and almost frightening experience, but a very rewarding one.
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Performers: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Recording date: 18 April 2013
Date of broadcast: 18 April 2013
