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Contents
- Chronology; Introduction;
- Part I . Instrumental Works:
- 1. Personal integrity and public service: the voice of the symphonist Eric Roseberry;
- 2. The string quartets: in dialogue with form and tradition Judy Kuhn;
- 3. Paths to the first symphony David Fanning;
- 4. Shostakovich's second piano sonata: a composition recital in three styles David Haas;
- 5. 'I took a simple little theme and developed it': Shostakovich's string concertos and sonatas Malcolm MacDonald;
- Part II . Music for Stage and Screen:
- 6. Shostakovich and the theatre Gerard McBurney;
- 7. Shostakovich as opera composer Rosamund Bartlett;
- 8. Shostakovich's ballets Marina Ilichova;
- 9. Screen dramas: Shostakovich's cinema career John Riley;
- Part III . Vocal and Choral Works:
- 10. Between reality and transcendence: Shostakovich's songs Francis Maes;
- 11. Slava! Shostakovich's 'official compositions' Pauline Fairclough;
- Part IV . Performance, Theory, Reception:
- 12. A political football - Shostakovich reception in Germany Erik Levi;
- 13. The rough guide to Shostakovich's harmonic language David Haas;
- 14. Shostakovich on record David Fanning;
- 15. Jewish existential irony as musical ethos in the music of Shostakovich Esti Sheinberg.