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A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.(Book review)
A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. By Pauline Fairclough. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [xxx, 261 p. ISBN 0-754-65016-2. $99.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index.
Few twentieth-century compositions raise as many interpretative and analytical challenges as Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Started before and completed after the official denunciation of his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and therefore preceding his work of "contrition," the Fifth Symphony, for many the Fourth Symphony has traditionally marked the course that Shostakovich's creative development might have taken, a missed path cruelly aborted by malevolent government ...
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