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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

Elegie no. 1, for cello and piano, S.196, "Schlummerlied im Grabe"

Franz Liszt

55/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Passages rapides and Vibrato (violoncelle) — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Gentle

Cantilène

Alexandre Batta

55/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Gentle

Andante pathétique, Op.86

Fabian Rehfeld

56/100 +6 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: Legato d'archet and Vibrato — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Gentle

Andante appassionato

Théodore Dubois

54/100 +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: Legato d'archet (violoncelle) and Vibrato (violoncelle) — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Gentle

Albumblätter, for cello and piano, op. 51

Reinhold Glière

53/100 +3 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Vibrato (violoncelle) and Legato d'archet (violoncelle) — 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

Sérénade in B minor, for cello and piano, op. 98

Gabriel Fauré

59/100 +9 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: Voix chantante and Vibrato (violoncelle) — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Balanced

Elegy for Cello and Piano in D flat major, op. 17, "Une pensée à Liszt"

Alexander Glazunov

63/100 +13 pts 12-24 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 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.

Balanced

Romance in F major, for cello and piano

Richard Strauss

59/100 +9 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Album célèbre

Heinrich Böhme

58/100 +8 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). 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.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Cello Sonata no. 2, op. 58

Felix Mendelssohn

69/100 +19 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer 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: Connaissance des formes and Passages rapides — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Cello Sonata in F major, op. 6, TrV115

Richard Strauss

70/100 +20 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

Challenge

Cello Sonata no. 1 in E minor, op. 38

Johannes Brahms

70/100 +20 pts 28-56 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Cello Suite no. 1 in G major, BWV.1007

Johann Sebastian Bach

51/100 +1 pts 4-6 weeks

new reflexes 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: Position du pouce and Connaissance des formes — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Same level

Allegro appassionato in B minor, for cello and piano, op. 43

Camille Saint-Saëns

49/100 -1 pts 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: Passages rapides and Vibrato (violoncelle) — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Same level

Variations concertantes, for cello and piano, op. 17

Felix Mendelssohn

48/100 -2 pts 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: Connaissance des formes and Passages rapides — 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.