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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Violin Sonata no. 3, H.303

Bohuslav Martinů

70/100 +5 pts 7-14 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Positions hautes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Violin Sonata no. 2, H.208

Bohuslav Martinů

69/100 +4 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Violin Sonata, FP119

Francis Poulenc

68/100 +3 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). 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.

Gentle

Three Preludes for Violin and Piano

George Gershwin

68/100 +3 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Intonation and Style moderne et contemporain — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Gentle

Abodah, B.66

Ernest Bloch

72/100 +7 pts 7-14 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Passages rapides and Style moderne et contemporain — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Violin Sonata no. 2

Charles Ives

75/100 +10 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Rythme d'archet complexe — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Violin Sonata no. 1

Ernest Bloch

78/100 +13 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). 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.

Balanced

Baal Shem: 3 Pictures of Hassidic life, for violin and piano

Ernest Bloch

74/100 +9 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Style moderne et contemporain and Vibrato — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

Violin Sonata, op. 31, no. 1

Paul Hindemith

74/100 +9 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Violin Concerto

Ernest Bloch

85/100 +20 pts 32-64 weeks

close skills 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. The skill that will carry the work: Style moderne et contemporain — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Challenge

Fantasy for Violin and Piano, op. 47

Arnold Schoenberg

85/100 +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: Positions hautes and Analyse harmonique — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Challenge

Rhapsody for Violin and Piano no. 2, BB96a, Sz.89

Béla Bartók

81/100 +16 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: Octaves and Rythme d'archet complexe — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Ballad for Violin and Piano

Arnold Bax

64/100 -1 pts 4-7 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. What changes is the skill in play: Voix chantante and Changements de position — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Same level

Reveille, for violin and piano

Benjamin Britten

62/100 -3 pts 4-7 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. What changes is the skill in play: Rythme d'archet complexe and Coups d'archet composés — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 2, op. 16: III. Allegro non troppo ma con brio

Vagn Holmboe

62/100 -3 pts 4-7 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. What changes is the skill in play: Connaissance des formes and Rythme d'archet complexe — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

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