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. WORKS: Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 Prokofiev: Ballade for Cello and Piano in C minor, Op. 15 Kabalevsky: Cello Sonata In B Flat, Op. 71 Shostakovich: Moderato in A minor for cello & piano Prokofiev: Adagio for cello & piano (from Cinderella), Op. 97bis Kabalevsky: Rondo In Memory Of Prokofiev, Op. 79 Steven Isserlis (cello) Olli Mustonen (piano)