Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow. Under the baton of conductor Mikhail Pletnev, the Russian National Orchestra and star-pianist Dmitry Shishkin interpret Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Frédéric Chopin's Valse Brilliante in F, Op. 34 No. 2 at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. The programme is produced by the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which Saint Petersburg-born composer Dmitri Shostakovich himself once described as playing a significant role "in the development of musical life [in Russia]. It is a kind of university which is attended by millions of music lovers and thousands of musicians." The Moscow Philharmonic Society was founded in 1922 by then-Commissar for Culture, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and has over the years come to be Russia's leading concert organizing institution.