Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Conversations with Balanchine on His Life, Ballet and Music

By Solomon Volkov

Testimony

By Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich

From Russia to the West

By Nathan Milstein

Testimony: The Memoirs Of Dmitri Shostakovich

By Соломон Волков, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Antonina W. Bouis, Dmitri Shostakovich

(Limelight). This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an internation...

Testimonio

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Romanov Riches Russian Writers And Artists Under The Tsars

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Temoignage

By Dimitri Chostakovitch Solomon Volkov

From Russia to the West

By Nathan Milstein

Romanov Riches

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In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relati...

Shostakovich and Stalin

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“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identifi...