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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Sonata for Viola (1975); Yuri Bashmet (viola), Ksenia Bashmet (Yuri’s daughter, piano)

This is the last thing Shostakovich composed before he died.

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lagniappe

Here’s another take on the last movement, with a younger Yuri Bashmet and Sviatoslav Richter.

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