Kozlovski - 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.