Pauline Fairclough

A vivid, absorbing new biography of Dmitry Shostakovich. Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century - a musician who adapted as no other to the unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin during the Great Purge, Shostakovich twice came close to the whirlwind of political repression, and he remained...