The Cambridge companion to Shostakovich
By: edited by Pauline Fairclough and David Fanning.
Contributors: Fairclough, Pauline, 1970-; Fanning, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521603157
Subjects: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, -- 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: Vocal and choral works. Between reality and transcendence : Shostakovich's songs / Francis Maes; title: Slava! shostakovich's 'official compositions' / Pauline Fairclough; title: Performance, theory, reception. A political football : Shostakovich reception in Germany / Erik Levi; title: 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.