Vivat Brahms!
Brahms
Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
25:021
I.Allegro non troppo13:33
2
II.Allegretto quasi Menuetto4:56
3
III.Allegro6:33
Brahms
Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (arr. James Barralet)
54:244
I.Allegro molto in G minor3:08
5
II.Allegro non assai in D minor3:05
6
III.Allegretto in F2:16
7
IV.Poco sostenuto in F minor4:41
8
V.Allegro in F♯ minor2:25
9
VI.Vivace in D♭3:21
10
VII.Allegretto in A1:46
11
VIII.Presto in A minor2:56
12
IX.Allegro ma non troppo in E minor1:59
13
X.Presto in E1:51
14
XI.Poco andante in D minor3:34
15
XII.Presto in D minor2:32
16
XIII.Andantino grazioso in D1:41
17
XIV.Un poco andante in D minor2:11
18
XV.Allegretto grazioso in B♭2:54
19
XVI.Con moto in F minor2:31
20
XVII.Andantino in F♯ minor3:27
21
XVIII.Molto vivace in D1:44
22
XIX.Allegretto in B minor1:54
23
XX.Poco allegretto in E minor2:41
24
XXI.Vivace in E minor1:47
With James Barralet (cello)
Brahms wrote the Hungarian Dances for piano duet and arranged them for solo piano himself; within a few years of the first two sets appearing, his enterprising publisher Simrock had issued them for almost every combination imaginable. Brahms orchestrated several — he was an inveterate transcriber of his own music and other people's — and Dvořák arranged others, his own Slavonic Dances undoubtedly prompted by the example. What had never existed was a complete set for cello and piano. James Barralet's new arrangement supplies one, drawing on both his compositional skill and his deep knowledge of the instrument, and this is its first recording.