The brilliant Venezuelan director Gustavo Dudamel, returns to the Palau de la Música conducting this time the Young National Orchestra of Venezuela and performing one of the symphonies of the 20th century most loved by the general public: the monumental Seventh "Leningrad" by Dmitri Xostakovich. In his fifth appearance in Sala Iturbi, Dudamel will conduct the shocking Symphony no. 7 “Leningrad”, a score conceived on 1941 in the middle of a besieged city, as an artistic response to the siege of quasi 900 Leningrad days during World War II, which cost the lives of one million residents. The work, completada a Kuibyshev, was released on 5 of March of the 1942.
National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel, director
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony no. 7 a C major, op. 60, «Leningrad»
