I've yet to hear any of it (thanks, glacial download speeds...) but I'm pleasantly unsurprised to hear that!

I was concerned as he had
very big shoes to fill when doing DOS2, but he was way better than I'd expected and I think it worked so well because he wasn't trying to "be" Kirill Pokrovsky. Yet in doing so he still managed to capture a similar sort of "vibe". I immediately went from being a bit "hmm, nobody else can be Kirill" to being really very impressed with him as a composer.