Claudio Bohórquez, the cellist on this recording, plays a G. B. Rogeri violoncello provided to him by the Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg.
Compositional Technique
Brahms's Cello Sonata Op. 99 features a final movement that serves as an epilogue, lasting only 144 bars, rather than a traditional, cyclical finale.
Compositional Technique
The final movement of Brahms's Cello Sonata Op. 38 uses an inversion of Contrapunctus 13 by Johann Sebastian Bach as a motivic quotation.
Composition History
Brahms's Hungarian Dances, inspired by refugee musicians in Hamburg, brought him instant fame among the educated middle classes upon their publication in 1869.
Composer Biography
Johannes Brahms confessed that although he played the violin a bit in his youth, his true instrument was the cello, which he loved for its 'serious character'.
Composition History
Brahms conceived his first chamber work for two players, the Cello Sonata Op. 38, during a summer holiday in 1862 with Clara Schumann.
Composer Biography
Brahms was an early music historian, corresponding with Beethoven researcher Gustav Nottebohm and collecting historical printed editions and manuscripts.
