Dmitry Shostakovich wrote regularly to his close friend Isaak Glikman during their 40-year relationship from the early 1930s to the composer's death in 1975. This work is a collection of 288 of these letters starting in 1941, when both correspondents were evacuated from Leningrad.[...]

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 international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as black-and-whi[...]