Sergey Kostylev & Olga Solovieva – Shebalin: Complete Music for Violin & Piano (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:06 minutes | 510 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
This is the first recording of the complete works for violin and piano by the Russian composer Vissarion Shebalin (190263). He was a close friend and colleague of Shostakovich, who said of him: ‘Shebalin was an outstanding man. His kindness, honesty and absolute adherence to principle always amazed me. His enormous talent and great mastery immediately earned him burning love and authority with friends and musical community’. Like Shostakovich, Shebalin was condemned at the infamous 1948 composers’ congress in Moscow and kicked out of his job at the Moscow Conservatoire.
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