Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony

The raw power of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony meets the anguished humanity of John Adams and Walt Whitman: Jukka-Pekka Saraste explores the terror and compassion of 20th century music. Imagine a symphony of iron and steel: a masterpiece so uncompromising that for decades, no-one dared perform it.