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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Berceuse, for cello and piano, A.88

Heitor Villa-Lobos

43/100 +4 pts 4-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Voix chantante and Style moderne et contemporain — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

Cello Sonata in A minor, RV.43, op. 14, no. 3

Antonio Vivaldi

45/100 +6 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Vibrato (violoncelle) and Analyse harmonique — what matters is a steady sustained tone: bow speed, contact point and pressure even, before any thought of speed.

Gentle

Lied ohne Worte, for cello and piano, op. 109

Felix Mendelssohn

42/100 +3 pts 4-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Voix chantante and Vibrato (violoncelle) — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

Cello Concerto in C minor, RV.402

Antonio Vivaldi

46/100 +7 pts 4-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Polyphonie à deux voix and Ornements baroque — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Cello Sonata no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 45: II. Andante

Felix Mendelssohn

51/100 +12 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Voix chantante and Connaissance des formes — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Balanced

Cello Sonata in C major, G.17

Luigi Boccherini

52/100 +13 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style classique and Vibrato (violoncelle) — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

Cello Sonata in E flat major, G.11

Luigi Boccherini

52/100 +13 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Cello Sonata no. 8 in E flat major, RV.39

Antonio Vivaldi

47/100 +8 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Vibrato (violoncelle) and Analyse harmonique — what matters is a steady sustained tone: bow speed, contact point and pressure even, before any thought of speed.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Cello Sonata No. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven

57/100 +18 pts 20-40 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Style classique — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Challenge

Cello Sonata no. 1 in C minor, op. 32

Camille Saint-Saëns

58/100 +19 pts 20-40 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Passages rapides and Doigté complexe — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Challenge

Cello Sonata no. 2 in F major, op. 123

Camille Saint-Saëns

61/100 +22 pts 24-48 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Passages rapides and Doigté complexe — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Cello Sonata in C major, SF. 746

Benedetto Marcello

40/100 +1 pts 3-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Détaché (violoncelle) and Vibrato (violoncelle) — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Same level

Cello Sonata in A minor, SF. 751

Benedetto Marcello

41/100 +2 pts 3-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Same level

Romance, for cello and piano, op. 69

Gabriel Fauré

42/100 +3 pts 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Voix chantante and Vibrato (violoncelle) — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

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