Grieg: Cello Sonata

Includes accompaniments for:

1. Allegro Agitato

1. Allegro Agitato (practice)

2. Andante molto tranquillo

3. Allegro

3. Allegro (practice)

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These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

Grieg's Cello Sonata, written in 1882-83, is one of the staples of the cello repertoire. The sonata is obviously influenced by the composer's own Piano Concerto, but the cello part is expertly written to bring the most out of the heartfelt melodies.

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2 minim click-beats at beginning to set pulse

Cadenza section (pesante, stretto molto) - 17 seconds silence, then a total of 10 minim click-beats across 5 bars help to signal where the piano comes back in. The final 8 of these click-beats accompany the section marked nicht sleppen

2 click-beats lead into Presto section - cello enters after second beat

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Accompaniment track begins at section marked Allegro molto e marcato.

This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.