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Pieter Wispelwey talks about performing the first movement of Brahms's Cello Sonata op.99 and provides demonstrations in the video above.

Wispelwey continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the first movement of Brahms's Cello Sonata op.99 – giving bowings, fingerings and ideas for interpretation in our November 2016 issue. Download now on desktop computer or through The Strad App.

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