Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
 
Shostakovich Symphony No. 6 in B minor
Shostakovich Symphony No. 12 in D minor, ‘The Year 1917’
 
Shostakovich’s Sixth and Twelfth Symphonies both had their origins in large-scale projects about Lenin, though the Sixth was eventually to emerge as one of the composer’s most abstract and idiosyncratic symphonies.