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

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.