Brahms: Cello Sonatas Opp. 38, 78 And 99

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Cat No: 8550656

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030506565

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BRAHMS

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Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)Sonata No.1 in E Minor for cello and piano, Op. 38 Sonata in D Major, Op. 78 (transcribed for cello and piano by Paul Klengel from ViolinSonata in G Major) Cello Sonata No.2 in F Major, Op. 99Johannes Brahms was born on 7th May 1833 in the Gangevierteldistrict of Hamburg, the son of a double-bass player and his wife, a seamstress seventeenyears her husband's senior. It was intended that the boy should follow his lather's tradeand to this end he was taught the violin and cello, but his interest in the pianoprevailed, enabling him to supplement the family income by playing in dockside taverns,while taking valuable lessons from Eduard Marxsen. In 1853 Brahms embarked on a concert tour with the Hungarianviolinist Eduard Rernenyi, during the course of which he visited Liszt in Weimar, to noeffect, and struck up a friendship with the violinist Joseph Joachim, through whose agencyhe met the Schumanns, established now in D??sseldorf. The connection was an important one.Schumann was impressed enough by the compositions of his own Brahms played to him to hailhim as the long-awaited successor to Beethoven. Schumann's subsequent break-down inFebruary 1854 and ensuing insanity brought Brahms back to D??sseldorf to help ClaraSchumann and her young family. The relationship with Clara Schumann, one of the mostdistinguished pianists of the time, tasted until her death in 1896.It was not until 1862, after a happy period that had broughthim a temporary position at the court of Detmold as a conductor and piano teacher, thatBrahms visited Vienna, giving concerts there and meeting the important critic EduardHanslick, who was to prove a doughty champion, pitting Brahms against Wagner and Liszt asa composer of abstract music, as opposed to the music-drama of Wagner and the symphonicpoems of Liszt, with their extra-musical associations. Brahms finally took up permanentresidence in Vienna in 1869, greeted by many as the real successor to Beethoven,particularly after his first symphony, and winning a similar position in popular esteemand similar tolerance for his notorious lack of tact. He died in 1897.It was in 1862 that Brahms wrote the first two movements of hisfirst Cello Sonata, the year of his firstvisit to Vienna, the city that was to welcome him as the heir of Beethoven. In 1862,however, there still seemed some possibility of employment in his native Hamburg and thiswas where his ambitions lay. The Cello Sonatawas to have had a third, Adagio movement, but this was discarded, and the work was finallycompleted in 1865, alter the death of the composer's mother and at a time when the GermanRequiem was again in his mind. The sonata makes full use of the more sombre possibilitiesof the cello, inherent in its lower range. The opening theme of the first movementestablishes this mood, momentarily lightened in the lilting closing theme of theexposition, which has been preceded by a characteristically dark-hued B minor theme. Theclosing theme, now
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