Leningrad: Siege and Symphony The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich - Brian Moynahan
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Format: M4B
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 10-07-14
Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on August 9, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, and most of all, starvation. The assembled musicians - scrounged from frontline units and military bands, for only 20 of the orchestra’s 100 players had survived - were so hungry, many feared they’d be too weak to play the score right through. In these, the darkest days of the Second World War, the music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world.
In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich’s most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. In vivid and compelling detail he tells the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin monsters of the 20th century on a city of exquisite beauty and fine minds, and of its no less remarkable survival. Weaving Shostakovic’s own story and that of many others into the context of the maelstrom of Stalin’s purges and the brutal Nazi invasion of Russia, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a magisterial and moving account of one of the most tragic periods in history.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
February 1st, 2021
Muchas gracias.
February 1st, 2021
It would be fair to replace the tag Russia with USSR.
February 5th, 2021
zeroin is correct. The Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, which included Russia.
February 10th, 2021
Thank you!!!
April 30th, 2021
Thank you! Please upload The Medieval World
by Dorsey Armstrong (The Great Courses)
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