Que jouer après Albumleaf: Meditation ?

Choose your level of commitment: consolidate, move up a tier or prepare a challenge. The top-ranked cards combine difficulty, risk, shared skills and confidence.

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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

8 Pieces, op. 99

Jean Sibelius

65/100 +5 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Tempo rubato — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Gentle

Sea Pieces, op. 55

Edward MacDowell

65/100 +5 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

4 Vier Kleine Klavierstücke, S.192

Franz Liszt

65/100 +5 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Fantasy Pieces, op. 12

Robert Schumann

64/100 +4 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Tempo rubato — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Gentle

Klavierstücke, op. 76

Johannes Brahms

63/100 +3 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Contrôle du toucher — what matters is quality of attack and evenness of tone, not speed.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Klavierstücke, op. 32

Robert Schumann

71/100 +11 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Tempo rubato — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Balanced

Klavierstücke, op. 118

Johannes Brahms

69/100 +9 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Contrôle du toucher — what matters is quality of attack and evenness of tone, not speed.

Balanced

3 Klavierstücke, D.946

Franz Schubert

68/100 +8 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Polyphonie à deux voix — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Klavierstücke, op. 119

Johannes Brahms

74/100 +14 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Indépendance des mains — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Feuille d'Album no. 1 in E major, S.164

Franz Liszt

76/100 +16 pts 28-56 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Contrôle du toucher — what matters is quality of attack and evenness of tone, not speed.

Challenge

Morceau de salon, étude de perfectionnement, S.142

Franz Liszt

76/100 +16 pts 28-56 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Passages rapides — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

A Children's Prank, scherzo

Modest Mussorgsky

80/100 +20 pts 32-64 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Great repertoire (diploma level, beyond grade 8) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Staccato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Scherzo in B flat major

Modest Mussorgsky

60/100 same level 4-7 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Staccato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

Piano Sonata no. 5 in C minor, op. 10 no. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven

61/100 +1 pts 4-7 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Connaissance des formes and Indépendance des mains — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35

Frédéric Chopin

59/100 -1 pts 4-6 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Connaissance des formes and Indépendance des mains — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Progressions computed from difficulty, skill overlap and style between works. A What do we play next? recommendation should remain a pedagogical starting point, not an automatic prescription.