The book … includes … valuable essays and interviews, which move beyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovich’s life under a totalitarian regime… . The ‘Casebook’ contributors compellingly warn of replacing one mask with another, one black-and-white myth with its simple inversion. -New York Times

… an important and readable collection… . It presents a devastating critique of Volkov’s claims and scholarly practices in Testimony. -New York Review of Books

A Shostakovich Casebook brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews-many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union-to create a volume of essential reading and cutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include Malcolm H. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin.