As part of the VE Day 60th anniversary celebrations, May 9th 2005 saw the Royal Albert Hall host to the St. Petersburg Academic Symphonic Orchestra in a Cinemaphonia performance of Dmitry Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony (Leningrad). Conducted by Shostakovich's son, Maxim Shostakovich, the concert incorporated a massive cinema screen at the rear of the hall to project synchronized film by director George Paradzhanov.

Sound By Design were contracted by Flux Event Design & Production to supply sound recording and reinforcement for the concert. The particularly large orchestra was recorded using a B&K Decca tree configuration, spot microphones on the wind, percussion, harp, and ambient microphones in the gallery. A mix of DDA and Focusrite preamps were used to make a 24bit stereo DAT and multi-track hard disk recording. An instant stereo mix was made back stage, monitoring with Meyer HM-1S speakers, and we took a backup recording using a Metric Halo interface into a Mac G4 Laptop.