Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
 
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 in G minor, ‘The year 1905’
 
Charismatic young conductor Vasily Petrenko launches his Shostakovich Symphonies series with the Eleventh. It is a highly charged depiction of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre of over two hundred peaceful demonstrators by Czarist soldiers outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1905.