Steffan Morris / Beatson,Alastair * Brahms: Cellos Sonatas [New CD] Import "On our debut album

"On our debut album

" plus the recently released "Headphones On

Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing presented with restored original artwork

and was released on 18 November 1991 on Island Records

06/21/2024

Steffan Morris / Beatson,Alastair * Brahms: Cellos Sonatas [New CD] Import "On our debut albumBrahms' Cello Sonata No. 1 was composed at a time of great emotional upheaval in 1865. His mother was dying, and the composer having visited her in Hamburg, had immersed himself in the music of Bach for solace. The finale of the sonata has an uncanny resemblance to Contrapunctus XIII from The Art of Fugue. The second sonata is a product of the tranquil summer holiday Brahms spent in the scenic lakeside suburb of Hofstetten, outside Thun in Switzerland