Yuri Shaporin: Complete Piano Music
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.
Kirill Kozlovski, piano
Listen To This Recording:
- Romance without Words: Andante
- I Sostenuto – Allegro moderato
- II Andante tranquillo –
- III Allegro misterioso –
- IV Finale. Moderato assai – Allegro moderato
- No. 1, Moderato assai
- No. 2, Reproach: Andante con moto
- Deux morceaux: No. 1 Serenata
- Deux morceaux: No. 2 Pastorale. Allegretto
- Andante sostenuto
- Allegro
- Moderato assai
- Allegro – Moderato
- I Allegro agitato. Alla toccata
- II Andante. Molto lirico con dolore – Alla marcia funebre
- III Moderato assai – Molto vivo con fuoco
Romance sans paroles (1900)
Piano Sonata No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 5 (1924)
Two Pieces from a Piano Suite (c. 1925–27)
Deux Morceaux (c. 1919)
Ballada, Op. 28 (c. 1934–59)
Matelot (1922)
Fugue in F sharp minor (1914)
Oriental Dance (c. 1905)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 7 (1926)*
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
FIRST COMPLETE RECORDING
MusicWeb International :
‘This disc is a most valuable contribution to the reassessment of the music of a composer whose works have been overlooked for far too long. Kirill Kozlovski is an obvious admirer of Shaporin’s piano works. His playing is revelatory and will, I am sure, help in the process of reassessment.’
—Steve Arloff, MusicWeb International