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Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist.(Book Review)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist. By Sofia Moshevich. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. [x, 222 p. ISBN 0-7735-2581-5. $39.95.] Bibliography, discography, music examples, index.
The dust-jacket blurb on Sofia Moshevich's Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist claims that the author uses Shostakovich's recordings as "primary sources to discover what made his playing unique and to dispel commonly held myths about his style of interpretation." Such a book would indeed be a welcome addition to the literature, as would a book that discussed any or all of the composer's masterful piano works in detail. Questions surrounding the performance and ...
- Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola.(Testimony: The Story of...
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Brown, Royal S. March 22, 2007 700+ words
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola Directed by...Alexandrov and Yuri Levedev; music by Dmitri Shostakovich; B&W, 75 mins., 1981...after Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov; cinematography...
- Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Brown, Royal S. September 22, 2005 700+ words
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film by John Riley. London and New York: I. B. Tauris...attention has been paid to the film music of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), even though this giant among twentieth-century...
- Terrible genius of Dmitri Shostakovich (Shostakovich: a life remembered; Pis'ma...
- Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly Paul G. Mitchinson March 22, 1996 700+ words
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH has always confounded the West...contemporaries Schoenberg and Stravinsky, Shostakovich, openly and enthusiastically used...program music or "tone painting," Shostakovich's works can seem to suggest less...
- Dmitri Shostakovich.
- Magazine article from: Czech Music Tuzilova, Marta October 1, 2005 700+ words
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio no. 1 op. 8, Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor op. 67, Seven...1 CD Arco Diva UP 0069-2 131 (distribution Classic). Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) is one of the composers who determined the course taken...
- Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Fairclough, Pauline January 1, 2007 700+ words
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film. By John Riley...ever English-language study of Shostakovich's film music, and as such is...material as possible. Derek Hulme's Dmitri Shostakovich: A Catalogue, Bibliography and...
- Music's missing faces; The symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich cannot be...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) November 26, 2003 700+ words
...mysterious satellites in the life of Dmitri Shostakovich, the great sputnik of 20th...be inquisitors. She was Shostakovich's pupil and, apparently...his wife, Nina, in 1954, Shostakovich offered to marry Ustvolskaya...
- Facing off Stalin; Dmitri Shostakovich.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 13, 2004 700+ words
WHEN Dmitri Shostakovich answered his phone one day in March...cultural conference for peace. Shostakovich said that he was "nauseated...luckless censors were punished. Shostakovich went to New York. While Solomon...
- Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005 700+ words
1850437092 Dmitri Shostakovich; a life in film. Riley, John. I.B. Tauris & Co. 2005 150 pages $55.00 Hardcover KINOfiles filmmakers' companions...
