All the pieces on this album are first recordings, meaning they have not been previously released on commercial recordings.
Critical Reception
In 1943, British musicologist Gerald Abraham called Yuri Shaporin's Symphony-Cantata 'On the Field of Kulikovo' 'perhaps the finest musical work Soviet Russia has yet produced'.
Interpretation
The pianist on this album, Kirill Kozlovski, decided not to include Shaporin's Prelude in D sharp minor because it sounded more like a sketch than a finished piece compared to its elaborated version in the Second Piano Sonata.
Performer Biography
Maria Yudina, a famous Russian pianist and dedicatee of Shaporin's Second Piano Sonata, included a non-existent Piano Concerto by Shaporin in her repertoire list.
Composer Biography
Yuri Shaporin, the composer, was known for being a slow worker, combining natural laziness with perfectionism, and often revising compositions multiple times.
Composer Biography
Yuri Shaporin had a peculiar habit of declaring works to exist before they were nearly ready, such as performing excerpts from his opera The Decembrists in the 1930s, though it was only finished in the 1950s.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Yuri Shaporin's first profound musical experience was hearing Borodin's opera Prince Igor as a teenager, which deeply influenced his artistic focus on the 'epic principle'.
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