BaL 11.07.15 - Brahms: Sonata no. 2 in F Op. 99 for Cello & Piano

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

9.30am
Building a Library: Brahms Cello Sonata No.2 in F major, Op.99
Katy Hamilton compares recordings of the second cello sonata by Johannes Brahms, written more than twenty years after his first during a summer retreat in 1886 at Hofstetten near Lake Thun in Switzerland. Its fiery exuberant character is a world away from the brooding, nostalgic nature its predecessor. Recordings under the spotlight include those by Janos Starker and Pierre Fournier alongside more recent performances by Norbert Anger and Steven Isserlis.

Available versions:

Jonathan Aasgaard, Martin Roscoe
Franz Amann, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Sonia Wieder Atherton
Florent Audibert, Remy Cardinale
Zuill Bailey, Awadagin Pratt
Susanne Beer
Alfia Bekova, Eleonora Bekova (download)
Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, Nina Kavtaradze
Alexandre Bouzlov, Viatcheslav Poprugin
Denis Brott, Glen Montgomery (download)
Thomas Carroll, Llŷr Williams
Pablo Casals, Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Natalie Clein, Charles Owen
Antony Cooke, Armin Watkins
Marc Coppey, Peter Laul
Caroline Dearnley, Julius Drake
Yegor Dyachkov, Jean Saulnier (download)
Pierre Fournier, Wilhelm Backhaus
Pierre Fournier, Franz Holetschek
Ophélie Gaillard, Louis Schwizgebel-Wang
Anne Gastinel, François-Frederic Guy
Nicolai Gerassimez, Norbert Anger
Alban Gerhardt, Markus Groh (download)
David Geringas, Tatjana Schatz
Lynn Harrell, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Christoph Henkel, Elisabeth Westenholz
Godfried Hoogeveen, Frédéric Meinders
Maximilian Hornung, Gerhard Vielhaber
Steven Isserlis, Peter Evans
Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough
Michal Kañka, Ivan Klánskÿ
Friedrich Kleinhapl, Andreas Woyke
Maria Kliegel, Kristin Merscher
Harriet Krijgh, Magda Amara
Truls Mørk, Juhani Lagerspetz
Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax
Enrico Mainardi, Carlo Zecchi
Mischa Maisky, Pavel Gililov
Johannes Moser, Paul Rivinius
Anton Nel, Bion Tsang (download)
Arto Noras, Juhani Lagerspetz
Esther Nyffenegger, Gérard Wyss (download)
Miklós Perényi, Zoltán Kocsis (download)
William Pleeth (DVD)
Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim (2 versions)
Jan Palenicek, Jitka Cechova
Miklós Perényi, Dénes Várjon
Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt
Gregor Piatigorsky, Arthur Rubinstein
Paul Pulford, Boyd McDonald
Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Dedyukin
Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Serkin
Rohan de Saram, Druvi de Saram
Daniil Shafran, Nina Musinian
Claude Starck, Christophe Eschenbach
János Starker, Julius Katchen
János Starker, György Sebók
Herre-Jan Stegenga, Philippe Entremont
Tanja Tetzlaff, Gunilla Süssmann
Torleif Thedéen, Roland Pöntinen
Paul Tortelier
Matei Varga, Laura Buruiana
Paul Watkins, Ian Brown
Tilmann Wick, Pascal Devoyon
Sung-Won Yang, Enrico Pace

plus:

Karl Leister (clarinet), Ferenc Bognár (piano)

[Roehre]

The one used by Bernstein in West Side Story

[MickyD]

I also have a good HIP performance on Channel Classics by Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti.

[visualnickmos]

Katy certainly has her work cut out! I very much like Rostropovich and Serkin.....FWIW.

[Sir Velo]

Jackie and Danny for me!

[Parry1912]

Back to real music this week!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Jackie and Danny for me!

They had a pretty good page turner, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJ_Gc9RES4

[gurnemanz]

They had a pretty good page turner, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncJ_Gc9RES4

... and here for Bernstein and Christa Ludwig (at 1.08)

[LeMartinPecheur]

EA: the riverpeople indicate this one is still available new

[Barbirollians]

EA: the riverpeople indicate this one is still available new

Not at all sure one is anywhere near enough - Jackie and Danny live is pretty special too

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA: the riverpeople indicate this one is still available new

Thank you.

[richardfinegold]

I have Starker/Sebok and Ma/ax

[BBMmk2]

I don't have any of these works, so looking forward to this!

[verismissimo]

I have only two very ancient LPs: Starker with Bogin (nla) and Fournier with Backhaus. The latter is rather dull, but the Starker is thrilling!

Time for something recorded well within the last half century, I think.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Note that I amended the heading to include the piano as an equal partner. I can still recall the day a cellist friend asked me to accompany him.