Piet Kuijken - Brahms- Cello Sonatas (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Brahms composed three movements of what would become the Sonata for cello and piano no 1 in 1862. He added a brilliant fugal finale three years later, shortly after the death of his beloved mother Christiane and in the midst of work on Eine Deutsches Requiem. The originally envisaged slow movement was dropped, perhaps to prevent the work and its imposing outer movements from collapsing under its own weight. Brahms dedicated the sonata to JosefGansbacher, an esteemed voice teacher who had played a crucial role in his election as conductor of the Vienna Singakademie. Gansbacher's qualities as a cellist, however, were questionable. When he played through the sonata with the composer during a small concert for friends, Brahms raged so furiously at the keyboard that Gansbacher could scarcely hear himself. 'Consider yourself lucky,' was Brahms' gruff response to Gansbacher's desperate pleas, after which he continues to pound the keys with undiminished vigour.

TRACKLIST

1. Piet Kuijken - Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
2. Piet Kuijken - Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto
3. Piet Kuijken - Cello Sonata No.1 in E Minor, Op. 38: III. Allegro
4. Piet Kuijken - Es träumte mir, Op. 57 No. 3
5. Piet Kuijken - Ach, wende diesen Blick, Op. 57 No. 4
6. Piet Kuijken - Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: I. Allegro vivace
7. Piet Kuijken - Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affettuoso
8. Piet Kuijken - Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: III. Allegro passionato
9. Piet Kuijken - Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: IV. Allegro molto
10. Piet Kuijken - Die Mainacht Op. 43 No. 2



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