Brahms: Cello sonatas

Arnold Schoenberg acknowledged Brahms’s extraordinary skill in opening out classical forms to new horizons. Some twenty years separate the composition of the cello sonatas of this composer preoccupied with the inner existence, who for all his respect for form was no academician, but a continuator of Beethoven. They represent perfect examples of the artistry with which Brahms resolved the textural problems raised by the combination of two instruments.