Bibliography / Discography
Books
Blokker, R. & Dearling, R. The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich - The Symphonies (London: Associated University Presses, Inc. 1979.)
Dale, S. Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1970)
Fay, L.E. Shostakovich - A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.)
MacDonald, I. The New Shostakovich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.)
McLellan, D. The Thought of Karl Marx (London: Macmillan Press Ltd. 1971.)
Ottaway, H. Shostakovich Symphonies (London: B.B.C. Publishing, 1978.)
Shepherd, J. Music as Social Text. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.)
Sollertinsky, Dmitri & Ludmilla. (Translated by Hobbs, G. & Midgley, C.) Pages from the Life of Dmitri Shostakovich (London: Robert Hale. 1981. Orig. Novosti Press 1979.)
Strunk, O. (Ed.) Source Readings in Music History - The Twentieth Century. London: (W.W. Norton & Co. 1950 / 1998.)
Volkov, S (& Shostakovich, D.) Testimony - The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
(New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1979.)
Scores
Lehar, F. (Adapted and arranged by Hanmer, R.)The Merry Widow (London: Glocken Verlag Ltd. 1958.)
Tschaikowsky, P.I. Symphony No. 5 (London / Zurich. Edition Eulenburg, Ltd. E.E. 429)
Schostakowitsch, D. Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (Hamburg: Musikverlag Hans Sikorski H.S. 2313)
Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphony No. 5 Op.47 (London / Zurich: Edition Eulenburg Ltd. E.E.6501)
Shostakovich, Dmitri. 7. Symphonie Op.60 (London: Anglo-Soviet Music Press, 1957.)
(Ed. Nr. 2229) (Boosey & Hawkes / Edition Sikorski. 1957)
Internet Articles
Iain Strachan's Shostakovich Website
http://home.clara.net/istrachan/DSCH/
A description and discussion of the mathematical codes incorporated in the music of Shostakovich.
Music under Soviet Rule
http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/musov.html
Site editor: Ian MacDonald
The parent site of Shostakovichiana. This site contains general information, with various contributors and sources, on music and musicians in the Soviet Union.
Shostakoviciana
http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/dmitri.html
Site editor: Ian MacDonald
This site includes contributions by various authors on issues relating to Dmitri Shostakovich - both musical and political.
Discography
Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphonies 2 & 3. The Age of Gold.
Bernard Haitink - Conductor
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca
124 131 - 2
Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphony No.4.
Neeme Järvi - Conductor
Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos Records Ltd.
CHAN8640
Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphony No. 5.
Bernard Haitink - Conductor
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Decca
410 017 - 2
Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphony No.7 - the 'Leningrad'.
Neeme Järvi - Conductor
Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos Records Ltd. 1988
CHAN 8623
Shostakovich, Dmitri. Symphony No. 8.
Bernard Haitink - Conductor
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Decca
411 616 - 2
Tchaikovsky, P.I. Symphony No. 5
Paul van Kempen
The Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Phillips
A 00141 L