Anthony Phillips learnt Russian in the "Secret Classrooms" of National Service in the 1950s and later at Oxford. The language continued to play an important part during his later career in music administration, during which he became general manager of London's Royal Festival Hall. Story of a Friendship, his translation of Shostakovich's letters to Isaak Glikman, was published by Faber in 2000, and Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters (with Rosamund Bartlett) by Penguin Classics in 2004.

'The third and final instalment of Prokofiev's diaries . . . in Anthony Phillips's excellently clear translation . . . These diaries are addictive and the effect of not seeing the life through his eyes anymore is a wrench . . . A stupendous work.' - Alexander Waugh, Literary Review'Should appeal well beyond Prokofiev's immediate fan base to readers intrigued by the siren song of Christian Science and / or sympathetic outsider's take on the Diaghilev set.' - David Gutman, Gramphone

Anthony Phillips learnt Russian in the "Secret Classrooms" of National Service in the 1950s and later at Oxford. The language continued to play an important part during his later career in music administration, during which he became general manager of London's Royal Festival Hall. Story of a Friendship, his translation of Shostakovich's letters to Isaak Glikman, was published by Faber in 2000, and Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters (with Rosamund Bartlett) by Penguin Classics in 2004.

'The third and final instalment of Prokofiev's diaries . . . in Anthony Phillips's excellently clear translation . . . These diaries are addictive and the effect of not seeing the life through his eyes anymore is a wrench . . . A stupendous work.' - Alexander Waugh, Literary Review'Should appeal well beyond Prokofiev's immediate fan base to readers intrigued by the siren song of Christian Science and / or sympathetic outsider's take on the Diaghilev set.' - David Gutman, Gramphone

Anthony Phillips learnt Russian in the "Secret Classrooms" of National Service in the 1950s and later at Oxford. The language continued to play an important part during his later career in music administration, during which he became general manager of London's Royal Festival Hall. Story of a Friendship, his translation of Shostakovich's letters to Isaak Glikman, was published by Faber in 2000, and Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters (with Rosamund Bartlett) by Penguin Classics in 2004.

'The third and final instalment of Prokofiev's diaries . . . in Anthony Phillips's excellently clear translation . . . These diaries are addictive and the effect of not seeing the life through his eyes anymore is a wrench . . . A stupendous work.' - Alexander Waugh, Literary Review'Should appeal well beyond Prokofiev's immediate fan base to readers intrigued by the siren song of Christian Science and / or sympathetic outsider's take on the Diaghilev set.' - David Gutman, Gramphone