NOSPR Chamber Music / NOSPR Chamber Musicians / Brahms' Loves

The cello and clarinet played a special role in Brahms’ music. As a young man, the composer played the cello himself, and it was for this instrument that he wrote two outstanding sonatas. The Cello Sonata in E minor reflects his fascination with Bach’s polyphony, sealed by a quotation from Die Kunst der Fuge used as the theme of the finale.