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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Live)

Payare Conducts Shostakovich's Most Harrowing Symphony.

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Label Delos

Artists Rafael Payare

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Live) was recorded live at Jacobs Music Center in May 2025, this release captures Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony in Shostakovich's monumental wartime symphony. Composed under siege in Leningrad in 1941 and famously smuggled out of the city, movement by movement, as the composer and his family fled. The booklet traces that extraordinary history in detail, from the symphony's frantic completion in evacuation to its legendary 1942 performance by a starving, depleted orchestra inside the besieged city itself. Following their acclaimed 2022 recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 (Gramophone: "right up there with the best we have"), Payare and the orchestra return to the composer with a work of even greater scale and historical weight — a fitting centerpiece as the ensemble builds international momentum ahead of its 2027 European tour.

San Diego Symphony Rafael Payare, Conductor

Tracklist

Total time: 01:15:22

1. Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, 'Leningrad': I. Allegretto

28:36

2. Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, 'Leningrad': II. Moderato: Poco allegretto

11:36

3. Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, 'Leningrad': III. Adagio

18:07

4. Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, 'Leningrad': IV. Allegro non troppo

17:03

Additional Information

Label

Delos

SKU

DE3634

Qualities

DSD 512, DSD 256, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 128, WAV 96 kHz, DSD 64, DXD 24 Bit

Channels

2ch Stereo

Artists

Rafael Payare

Composers

Shostakovich

Conductors

Rafael Payare

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

PCM 96k

Instruments

Orchestra

Recording Location

Jacobs Music Center, San Diego, USA

Producer

Shawn Murphy

Recording Engineer

Joel Watts

Release Date

August 27, 2026

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