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A still from the film accompanying Shostakovich's Symphony No.7, with a floating ethereal figure overlaid on grey, grainy square and circle shapes, with a silhoutted pair of hands at the bottom

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) announces it will perform Shostakovich’s defiant Symphony No.7 with a cutting edge video installation at the Southbank Centre’s ground-breaking Multitudes festival on Sunday 27 April.

A profound historical document, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.7 is for this festival being presented as a timeless meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and a hope for peace in today’s troubled world.

The Orchestra on stage at the Royal Festival Hall

On Sunday 23 March the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra returned to the Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre for the second concert of our 2025 series, Lights in the Dark, with Music Director Vasily Petrenko. The programme featured three émigré composers who moved to the United States between the wars; Erich Korngold, Béla Bartók and Sergei Rachmaninov. We were joined by pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the XVIII International Chopin Competition.

Read on to see photos and reviews from the evening.

All photos © Frances Marshall

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