Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his Moscow flat. He was 61, and had struggled for years with ill ...

Michel Krielaars’ illuminating account of the composers and performers who navigated the repressive Soviet system ...

He met Shostakovich, Rostrapovich, David Oistrakh and Rozhdestvensky, and polite speeches were made in his honour by younger composers including Tikhon Khrennikov, the Secretary of the Union of ...

With The Sound of Utopia, Michael Krielaars offers a chattily accessible survey of the musicians who lived beholden to the KGB’s whims ...

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Designed as a successor to "They Met In Moscow", with the same director, star and composer, "Six P. M." (1946 American release title) has two artillery officers meeting an attractive girl in ...