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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Souvenir d'un lieu cher, for violin and piano, op. 42

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

64/100 +5 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: Voix chantante and Ornements romantiques — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

Violin Sonata no. 5 in F major, op. 24, "Spring"

Ludwig van Beethoven

64/100 +5 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: Analyse harmonique and Style classique — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Violin Sonata no. 2 in A major, op. 100

Johannes Brahms

63/100 +4 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: Analyse harmonique and Passages rapides — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Violin Sonata no. 4 in A minor, op. 23

Ludwig van Beethoven

63/100 +4 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

3 Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 116

Jean Sibelius

63/100 +4 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Vibrato — what matters is a steady sustained tone: bow speed, contact point and pressure even, before any thought of speed.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Sonata for violin and piano no. 1, op. 50

Charles-Marie Widor

70/100 +11 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: Analyse harmonique and Positions hautes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Violin Sonata no. 1 in G major, op. 78

Johannes Brahms

69/100 +10 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: Analyse harmonique and Voix chantante — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 17

Josef Suk

69/100 +10 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: Changements de position — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Balanced

Violin Sonata no. 1 in A major, op. 13

Gabriel Fauré

67/100 +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: Analyse harmonique and Passages rapides — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Violin Sonata no. 3 in D minor, op. 108

Johannes Brahms

77/100 +18 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: Analyse harmonique and Passages rapides — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61

Ludwig van Beethoven

75/100 +16 pts 28-56 weeks

partial transfer 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 a steady sustained tone: bow speed, contact point and pressure even, before any thought of speed.

Challenge

Violin Sonata no. 9 in A major, op. 47, "Kreutzer"

Ludwig van Beethoven

80/100 +21 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: Analyse harmonique and Trilles — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Mazurka-Oberek, for violin and piano in D

Alexander Glazunov

60/100 +1 pts 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: Rythmes pointés and Détaché — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

Romance for Violin and Orchestra no. 1 in G major, op. 40

Ludwig van Beethoven

61/100 +2 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: Voix chantante — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

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