Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony will be performed for the first time in Murmansk

In the Murmansk Philharmonic for the first time will perform Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” Dmitry Shostakovich. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Information Policy of the region.

The concert was timed to the 82nd anniversary of the defeat of the German fascist troops in the Arctic. The symphony will be played by the Consolidated Symphony Orchestra of the Arctic Regions – musicians from Murmansk to Chukotka. The conductor will be Honored Artist of Russia, Rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Alexei Vasiliev.

The Seventh Symphony became the musical symbol of the Victory. It was first performed in besieged Leningrad on August 9, 1942. After 84 years it will be heard in Murmansk.

Earlier, “MK in Murmansk” said that the events for the anniversary of the defeat of fascist troops in the Arctic became almost a third less in two years.