Que jouer après Polonaise in G minor, BWV.Anh.119 ?

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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Fantasia in D minor, Wq.113, H.195

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

50/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Fantasia in D minor, Wq.114, H.234

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

50/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Polonaise G major

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

52/100 +6 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Phrasé — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

Polonaise D major

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

52/100 +6 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Gentle

Polonaise A flat major KK IVa,2

Frédéric Chopin

53/100 +7 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Passages rapides — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Eine Kleine Gigue in G major, K.574

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

57/100 +11 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style baroque and Ornements baroque — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

L'Auguste, polonaise in F major, H.122, Wq.117, no. 22

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

55/100 +9 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk fair confidence

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Rythmes pointés and Passages rapides — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Balanced

Scherzo BB 79,5

Béla Bartók

55/100 +9 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Passages rapides — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Rondo in E major, H.265, Wq.57, no. 1

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

54/100 +8 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Polonaise b flat minor KK IVa,5

Frédéric Chopin

65/100 +19 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap while staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. The skill that will carry the work: Octaves — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin', S.429, R.262

Franz Liszt

62/100 +16 pts 24-48 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap while staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. The skill that will carry the work: Rythmes pointés and Passages rapides — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Challenge

Polonaises, op. 26

Frédéric Chopin

67/100 +21 pts 24-48 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. 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.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Minuet with 21 Variations, H.14, Wq.118, no. 7

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

46/100 same level 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Analyse harmonique and Indépendance des mains — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

Variation on a Waltz by A. Diabelli D 718

Franz Schubert

47/100 +1 pts 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Same level

Menuet I and II in D major, H.214, Wq.116, no. 3

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

44/100 -2 pts 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. The skill that will carry the work: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

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