Blue Hour (Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn)

In this latest volume of their cycle, conductor and orchestra turn their attention to two symphonies written in the shadow of World War II: the formally innovative No.6, premiered in November 1939, and No.7, most of which was composed in Leningrad in the autumn of 1941, at the beginning of the siege that would cost over a million people their lives. The incidental music that Shostakovich wrote between the two symphonies for a 1941 production of Shakespeare's King Lear is also includ