First Hand Records presents violinist Sasha Rozhdestvensky in the world premiere commercial recording of Shostakovich's unfinished Sonata for Violin and Piano. This recording includes an extra 28 bars of a development section found in Shostakovich's original manuscript that does not appear in the published score. Completed by an 11 bar coda written by conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, the work is coupled with the Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.43. The program also contains world premire commercial recordings of Shostakovich's Andantino from String Quartet No.4 Op.83, his arrangement of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and his transcription of Gaetano Braga's La Serenata.