books.google.com - (Limelight). 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-white...http://books.google.com/books/about/Testimony_The_Memoirs_of_Dmitri_Shostako.html?id=GEApb54v-s4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTestimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich