The Brahms Cello Sonatas are part of the standard cello repertoire (duh!). I’ll post the score along with what Wikipedia has to say about the works.
Wikipedia on Cello Sonata No. 1
First movement
This movement is in a long-lined sonata form, opening with solo cello over chords in the keyboard, a melody that gains and loses in intensity and dynamics, and then passes to the keyboard, where the same general curve is followed without the same notes; the breadth and lyrical quality of this passage are characteristic of much of the movement. We pass from E minor through C major to a substantial second group of themes in first B minor, then B major.
This exposition repeats, followed by a development mostly of the second half of the opening theme’s first phrase, together with a version of the insistent descending fifth (F#-B F#-B F#-B) that had accompanied the last part of the exposition, building to a peak of energy, in which the cello makes two-octave leaps bridged by acciaccaturas against fortissimo variants of the opening theme, after which another theme (the B minor theme, the first theme of the second group) is heard and varied at some length, and the music, after another surge, dies away into the quiet return of the opening theme. (In performances, like the recording made by Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim, in which the opening songful quality is taken to mean that Brahms meant the movement for an Andante or even slower tempo.) The recapitulation is fairly regular, and the coda expands on the B major theme.
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Wikipedia has nothing but the movement tempos marked down for the second cello sonata.
Recordings on Youtube:
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 With Rostropovich
- Movement 1: Part 1, Part 2
- Movement 2
- Movement 3
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2
- Movement 1 With Jackie Du Pre
- Movement 2 With Jiang Wang
- Movement 3 With Hans-Jorg Pohl?
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 Op. 38:
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 Op. 99: