Symphony no. 7 "Leningrad"

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester & Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov

Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" is the seventh symphony by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1941. Musically it is a large-scale, four-movement orchestral work that juxtaposes lyrical passages with militaristic motifs and expansive climaxes, written against the backdrop of the Second World War and associated with the siege of Leningrad, and it represents a prominent example of Shostakovich's wartime output within twentieth-century symphonic literature.