{"product_id":"shostakovich-reconsidered-9780907689577","title":"Shostakovich Reconsidered","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEstablishes beyond any doubt the enormous courage of one of the giants of the age\u003c\/b\u003eDmitry Shostakovich's memoirs, \u003ci\u003eTestimony\u003c\/i\u003e, `related to and edited by Solomon Volkov', have been the subject of fierce debate since their publication in 1979. Was \u003ci\u003eTestimony\u003c\/i\u003e a forgery, made up by an impudent impostor, or was it the deathbed confession of a bent, but unbroken, man? Even now, years after the fall of the communist regime, a coterie of well-placed Western musicologists have regularly raised objections to \u003ci\u003eTestimony\u003c\/i\u003e, hoping with each attack to undermine the picture of Shostakovich presented in his memoirs that of a man of enormous moral stature, bitterly disillusioned with the Soviet system.  Here, Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofanov systematically address all of the accusations levelled at \u003ci\u003eTestimony\u003c\/i\u003e and Solomon Volkov, Shostakovich's amanuensis, amassing an enormous amount of material about Shostakovich and his position in Soviet society and burying forever the pictureof Shostakovich as a willing participant in the communist charade. ALLAN B. HO is a musicologist, DMITRY FEOFANOV a lawyer and pianist.","brand":"Toccata Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039094047063,"sku":"9780907689577","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780907689577.jpg?v=1750942543","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shostakovich-reconsidered-9780907689577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}