EpisodeS64E3180 min2010-07-22
BBC Proms
Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony
Suzy Klein presents from the Royal Albert Hall as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under their principal conductor Thierry Fischer, perform Prokofiev's audacious First Piano Concerto with soloist Alexander Toradze and Shostakovich's monumental Seventh Symphony, composed in 1941 while Leningrad lay under German siege.