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Praga Digitals  PRD/DSD 250 264

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Chamber

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40, Two Pieces (from the Second Ballet Suite), Sonata Op. 147 (trans. from viola)

Michal Kanka (cello)
Jaromír Klepač (piano)


A juxtaposition of a youthful, tumultuous and virtuoso sonata (1934), still influenced by Tchaikovsky and Miaskovsky, and his very last score of 5th July 1975, originally for viola, ending with a homage to Beethoven. Here, for the first time, it is played on the cello in its original tessitura.

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• Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147