First performance in England of the ' Leningrad ' Symphony played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood
Today is the anniversary of the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Symphony you will hear tonight was written under the stress of the attack on that great city, Leningrad. Shostakovich says that
* My Seventh Symphony is devoted to the ordinary Soviet citizens who have become heroes of this patriotic war. That is its fundamental theme.'
For further details about this work, readers are asked to refer to Ralph Hill's article in the RADIO TIMES dated May 29.