Shostakovich: Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad', St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Temirkanov

Whether you believe Shostakovich's seventh to be a noble expression of defiance in the face of nazism or a crude outpouring of patriotic fervour, there is no denying the power of it when played so proudly by an orchestra from the city for which it was written. Modern St Petersburg bears few of the scars of the siege that gripped it for 900 days in the second world war, but this symphony lives on as a testament to the starving musicians of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra, who "fired" it at their besiegers through loudspeakers in an extraordinary act of psychological warfare.