The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich

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.