Schiff/Zacharias - Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40, Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 69, Johan

A genuinely great instrumentalist who certainly left his mark on the music world was cellist Heinrich Schiff, who died in 2016 and is not adequately represented on CD. He can be heard here in his full-on vigorous musicality with a partner who is unusually his equal, in three major works of the cello repertoire, the Sonata Op. 40 by Shostakovich, the middle sonata by Beethoven and the last one by Brahms.