Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-389) and index.
Contents:
Instrumental works. Personal integrity and public service : the voice of the symphonist / Eric Roseberry ; The string quartets : in dialogue with form and tradition / Judy Kuhn ; Paths to the First symphony / David Fanning ; Shostakovich's Second piano sonata : a composition recital in three styles / David Haas ; 'I took a simple little theme and developed it' : Shostakovich's string concertos and sonatas / Malcolm MacDonald -- Music for stage and screen. Shostakovich and the theatre / Gerard McBurney ; Shostakovich as opera composer / Rosamund Bartlett ; Shostakovich's ballets / Marina Ilichova ; Screen dramas : Shostakovich's cinema career / John Riley -- Vocal and choral works. Between reality and transcendence : Shostakovich's songs / Francis Maes -- Slava! The 'official compositions' / Pauline Fairclough -- Performance, theory, reception. A political football : Shostakovich reception in Germany / Erik Levi -- The rough guide to Shostakovich's harmonic language / David Haas ; Shostakovich on record / David Fanning ; Jewish existential irony as musical ethos in the music of Shostakovich / Esti Sheinberg.
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