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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Variations on an Original Theme, WoO 77

Ludwig van Beethoven

50/100 +5 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: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Variations for piano in G

Gaetano Donizetti

50/100 +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: Indépendance des mains and Connaissance des formes — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Gentle

6 Piano Variations on an Allegretto K. 54 (547b)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

48/100 +3 pts 4-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Variations on a Theme by Grétry, WoO 72

Ludwig van Beethoven

48/100 +3 pts 4-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Piano Variations in E flat Hob. XVII:3

Franz Joseph Haydn

48/100 +3 pts 4-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Variations on a Minuet by Haibel, WoO 68

Ludwig van Beethoven

57/100 +12 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: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Mein junges Leben hat ein End, SwWV 324, variations

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

55/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

13 Variations on a Theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner in A minor, D.576

Franz Schubert

57/100 +12 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Variations on a Russian Dance, WoO 71

Ludwig van Beethoven

54/100 +9 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

10 Variations, for piano in F major, D.156

Franz Schubert

63/100 +18 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. New compared with the previous piece: Demi-pédale and Connaissance des formes — the pedal is set by ear, note by note: misjudged, it blurs the harmony instead of joining it.

Challenge

Variations on Rule Britannia, WoO 79

Ludwig van Beethoven

61/100 +16 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: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Variations on a Theme by Winter, WoO 75

Ludwig van Beethoven

61/100 +16 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Piano Sonata G major K. 283 (189h)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

44/100 -1 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. What changes is the skill in play: Indépendance des mains and Connaissance des formes — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

Piano Sonata no. 20 in G major, op. 49 no. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven

46/100 +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. The skill that will carry the work: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

Sonatina in G major Op.79

Ludwig van Beethoven

43/100 -2 pts 3-4 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. What changes is the skill in play: 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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