Kirill Kozlovski’s new album Shostakovich in Context has been in the Finnish media these past couple of weeks: in addition to this review on the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE Radio 1’s Uudet levyt program, and the accompanying article New Finnish music in an interesting context (both in Finnish), in an episode titled Conversations of pairs, the Välilevyjä program played an interesting medley that juxtaposed my 2004 piano suite Toccata with the works of Shostakovich, both from Kirill’s CD as well as from Olli Mustonen’s beautiful 1999 recording of preludes and fugues by Shostakovich and Bach.
Ilari Kaila, composer 