So far as the general musical public is concerned, the reputation of Dmitri Shostakovich as one of the twentieth century’s great masters rests principally upon his fifteen symphonies and fifteen string quartets, together with several of his concertos and a handful of other works. The Shostakovich specialist, however, will know that apart from these forty or so compositions there are another hundred or more which, the moment one begins to examine them, show this unique composer in a number of different guises.