- Composer: Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai (15 May 1925 -- 8 November 2015) - Performer: Renata Loseva (piano) - Year of recording: 2013(?), live "Toccata" (Allegro), 3rd movement from the Piano Sonat(in)a No. 1 in D minor, written in 1950. Recording from Youtube-channel "LoRen Renata" (www.youtube.com/MusicByRenata) Eshpai's musical expressive means are very unusual due to his usage of the folklore of his native Mari people. Typically his colourful orchestral sound seems to distill the essence of the natural world of the far north. He uses syncopated rhythms; his rhythms seem to be related to the music of Bartók. He uses often alternations of ostinato-tuttis and rhythmic shifts from folklore music.