In Reply to: Will check it out! I see the Brahms Cello Sonatas with Thedeen and Pontinen are on sale: hard nuts to crack posted by jdaniel@jps.net on December 2, 2016 at 17:09:09:
The E-minor comes up fairly often in my work. In fact I'm rehearsing and performing it with one girl in El Cerrito right now. As for the great and wonderful (and more difficult!) F-major work, I believe Schoenberg had some insightful things to say about it (e.g., how the first movement seems to start in medias res, but perhaps this impression isn't quite as it seems!) - I think it was in his essay, "Brahms the Progressive", but it could possibly come from another essay instead (darn memory!).
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- Interesting - I love those sonatas - Chris from Lafayette 12:17:19 12/04/16 (2)
- Me too. - rbolaw 16:48:20 12/04/16 (1)
- RE: Me too. - Chris from Lafayette 20:56:17 12/04/16 (0)