Dmitri Shostakovich

Shostakovich's last work the Sonata For Viola And Piano Op.147 is a superbly crafted Sonata in three movements with unusually a slow Adagio movement for the third. It was dedicated to the violist Fyodor Druzhinin a professor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and a member of the Beethoven String Quartet a renowned Moscow ensemble that played at the premieres of most of Shostakovich’s string quartets. Fyodor Druzhinin and Mikhail Muntyan premiered the Viola Sonata in Leningrad on October 1 1975.The solo Viola part is also included on a separate insert.