Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Hear Shostakovich's defiant Symphony No.7, 'Leningrad', conducted by Vasily Petrenko at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 27 April, accompanied by a video installation by Kirill Serebrennikov and Ilya Shagalov.

Also in the programme will be Sibelius' hymn to freedom, Finlandia, and Kurt Weill's Four Walt Whitman Songs with baritone Roderick Williams.

Find out more and book: rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eventdetail/2494/231/symphony-of-shadows-shostakovich-7

Discover our 2025 series Lights in the Dark at Southbank Centre at the Royal Albert Hall: rpo.co.uk/lightsinthedark