recent translation of Michel Krielaars' Music of Utopia has been published in 2026, and it's got a chapter on Zaderatsky (looks like this one will have to go on the "to read" pile).

https://artsfuse.org/328933/book-review-the-sound-of-utopia-music-in-the-shadow-of-power/

https://pushkinpress.com/book/the-sound-of-utopia/

The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin

Michel Krielaars

Translated by Jonathan Reeder

ISBN 9781805330042

Published 15th January 2026

I haven't picked it up just yet but longtime readers of Wenatchee The Hatchet know I've referenced Zaderatsky's 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano a few times over the years.  So this looks like something to add to the read pile later this year  I have a bit of a hobby now and then about Soviet era music and composers.  

If you haven't heard the Zaderatsky preludes and fugues they are worth a listen.  I've considered blogging about or through the Zaderatsky cycle and the Shchedrin cycle but flesh and blood can only pull off so much.  I'm still obviously not even half-way done with the big Matiegka guitar sonata project so there's hardly any point in biting off still more than I can chew in analysis.