Composer: Yuri Shaporin
Performer: Kirill Kozlovski
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC 0621
Release: 2022
Size: 1.31 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Romance Without Words
Piano Sonata No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 5
02. I. Sostenuto – Allegro moderato
03. II. Andante tranquillo
04. III. Allegro misterioso
05. IV. Finale. Moderato assai – Allegro moderato
Pieces from a Piano Suite
06. No. 1, Moderato assai
07. No. 2, Reproach. Andante con moto
Morceaux for Piano
08. No. 1 Serenata
09. No. 2 Pastorale. Allegretto
10. Ballad in G minor for Piano, Op. 28
11. Matelot
12. Fugue in F sharp minor
13. Oriental Dance
Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 7
14. I. Allegro agitato. Alla toccata
15. II. Andante. Molto lirico con dolore – Alla marcia funebre
16. III. Moderato assai – Molto vivo con fuoco
With its roots in the tradition of Borodin and Mussorgsky, the music of the Ukrainian- born Soviet composer Yuri Shaporin (1887-1966) sits between the late Romanticism of Skryabin and the harder edges of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, blending a mastery of counterpoint with an acute sense of Russian keyboard colour. In Shaporin’s piano music his fondness for the epic – expressed in two large-scale Sonatas and a mighty Passacaglia – is contrasted with a number of gentle, almost whimsical miniatures.