Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas - Steven Isserlis, Olli Mustonen

Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40[27'21]Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
1 Allegro non troppo – Largo[11'59]
2 Allegro[3'02]
3 Largo[7'46]
4 Allegro[4'34]
5 Ballade in C major Op 15[10'53]Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Cello Sonata in B flat major Op 71[21'54]Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
6 Andante molto sostenuto[8'36]
7 Allegretto con moto[5'26]
8 Allegro molto[7'52]
9 Moderato[2'31]Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
10 Adagio 'Cinderella and the Prince' Op 97bis[3'52]Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)
11 Rondo in memory of Prokofiev Op 79[9'57]Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

Belying its young composer’s reputation as the enfant terrible of early Soviet music, ‘the most popular cello sonata of the twentieth century’—Steven Isserlis’s verdict on the Shostakovich—takes its place alongside two other Russian masterpieces, from pre-Revolutionary Prokofiev to Kabalevsky in the Khrushchev era.