Fairclough Pauline, Fanning Peter (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Shostakovich

Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 408 p.Notes on the contributors
ChronologyPauline Fairclough and David Fanning
Instrumental works
Personal integrity and public service: the voice of the
symphonist
Eric Roseberry
The string quartets: in dialogue with form and tradition
Judith 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 SheinbergSelect bibliography