Contemplating Shostakovich : Life, Music and Film

SUMARIO. Part I Music and Style: Through the looking glass: reflections on the significance of words and symbols in Shostakovich's music; Elizabeth Wilson / Shostakovich, old believers and new minimalists; Alexander Ivashkin / Five Satires (Pictures of the Past) by Dmitrii Shostakovich (op. 109): the musical unity of a vocal cycle; Gilbert Rappaport / Moving towards an understanding of Shostakovich's Viola Sonata; Ivan Sokolov, translated by Elizabeth Wilson. // Part II Film: Madness by design? Hamlet's state as defined through music; Erik Heine / Stalin (and Lenin) in Shostakovich's cinema; John Riley / Hamlet, King Lear and their companions: the other side of film music; Olga Dombrovskaia. // Part III Life and Documents: Arrangements for Piano Four Hands in Dmitrii Shostakovich's creative work and performance; Inna Barsova / Shostakovich and Soviet Eros: forbidden fruit in the realm of communal Communism; Vladimir Orlov / A Soviet opera in America; Terry Klefstad / Shostakovich in mid-1930s: operatic plans and their realization (autograph of unknown opera by the composer); Olga Digonskaia, translated by Stephen Dinkeldein // Index.