Cello Sonatas
Amy Norrington, Piet Kuijken
- Label
- Etcetera
- Catalogue number
- CDM 7 69851 2
- EAN / barcode
- 077776985121
- Release date
- 30 July 1989
- Format
- Digital
- Type
- Album
More info
Johannes Brahms had been fascinated since his youth by the "masculine, serious character" of the cello, when he himself had taken lessons and made great progress on the instrument. Initially, however, he entrusted the cello with some of the most beautiful cantilenas in larger chamber music works, such as the first piano trio and the first string sextet. Only after these and the first two piano quartets with their sonorous cello parts did he turn to a cello sonata in 1862. Its deeply melancholic character became so paradigmatic for the instrument that he only ventured to a second cello sonata decades later, in 1886.
Tracklist
- 01 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19: I. Lento - Allegro moderato 09:55
- 02 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19: II. Allegro scherzando 06:04
- 03 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19: III. Andante 06:10
- 04 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19: IV. Allegro mosso 10:18
- 05 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 65: I. Allegro moderato 10:27
- 06 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 65: II. Scherzo 04:37
- 07 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 65: III. Largo 03:25
- 08 Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 65: IV. Finale. Allegro 05:39
Source: MusicBrainz
