Czech Philharmonic: Season Opening Concert 2021

The season 2021/2022 opens with one of the most iconic 20th century works. Dmitri Shostakovich refused evacuate from Leningrad, surrounded by the German army, and wrote a new symphony, Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 (“Leningrad”). The premiere of which was broadcast on radio during the siege in 1942. Semyon Bychkov has close family ties to the event – his mother lived through the siege in Leningrad.