Brahms: Complete Music for Cello and Piano

What are the extras that cause Brahms's cello music to need a second CD? In addition to the two sonatas, Jonathan Aasgaard, principal cellist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, offers arrangements of the First Violin Sonata, five Hungarian Dances, six songs, the slow movement of the Second Piano Concerto, and the FAE Scherzo, originally for violin and piano. Strangely, the sense of musical engagement is actually higher in the arrangements of the violin pieces than in the cello sonatas, where the piano too often sounds to be a subservient to the very careful cello rather than an equal partner. It's the First Violin Sonata, transposed down a fifth for the cello, which is best of all. url.ie/e8oo