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References
- ↑ List of works Archived 2006-04-14 at the Wayback Machine in Onno van Rijen's Shostakovich & other Soviet composers page
- ↑ Booklet notes by Anastasia Belina to the Russian Philharmonic - Yablonsky Naxos release, 8.570720
