Que jouer après Sinfonia in E minor, H.115, Wq.122, no. 3 ?

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.

Back to the full work page

Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV.846-869

Johann Sebastian Bach

47/100 +5 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: Analyse harmonique and Ornements baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Chromatic Invention (2)

Béla Bartók

46/100 +4 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). The skill that will carry the work: Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Gentle

Sinfonia No.2 in C minor BWV 788

Johann Sebastian Bach

49/100 +7 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: Style baroque and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Keyboard Sonatina in D major, Wq.109, H.453

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

45/100 +3 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). 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.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Sinfonia No.3 in D major BWV 789

Johann Sebastian Bach

52/100 +10 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). The skill that will carry the work: Style baroque and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

Sinfonia No.11 in G minor BWV 797

Johann Sebastian Bach

52/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Sinfonia in F major, for piano

Pietro Mascagni

50/100 +8 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer 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: Analyse harmonique and Style baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Fugue in C minor, K.426

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

50/100 +8 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer 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: Analyse harmonique and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — 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

Fugue a2 in D minor, for clavichord, H.99, Wq.119, no. 2

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

62/100 +20 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer 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: Analyse harmonique and Demi-pédale — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Sinfonia No.15 in B minor BWV 801

Johann Sebastian Bach

57/100 +15 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. The skill that will carry the work: Style baroque and Indépendance des mains — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Invention No.13 in A minor BWV 784

Johann Sebastian Bach

40/100 -2 pts 3-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. The skill that will carry the work: Style baroque and Polyphonie à deux voix — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

Sonata in C minor, H. 209, Wq.60

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

44/100 +2 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: Analyse harmonique and Style classique — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

Keyboard Sonatina in D major, Wq.109, H.453

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

45/100 +3 pts 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Intermediate (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.

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.