Rodion Shchedrin is a Russian composer with a distinctive voice that moves freely between neo-classical forms and more experimental textures, always maintaining melodic substance and architectural clarity. This second volume of his piano works spans from an ambitious Sonata to character pieces and transcriptions of his own orchestral works, including selections from the ballet The Humpbacked Horse. The music avoids both academic dryness and empty virtuosity; instead it asks questions about what piano technique can accomplish and how traditional forms contain new possibilities. The recording comes from the Melodiya catalogue and captures these works with decent clarity. For pianists and listeners interested in post-Soviet Russian composition—material less frequently encountered than Schnittke or Gubaidulina—Shchedrin offers sophisticated pleasures and genuine innovation.