Que jouer après 12 Fantasie a quattro, for instruments ?

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

37 Canzonas

Girolamo Frescobaldi

55/100 +5 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 baroque and Ornements baroque — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

12 Capricci fatti sopra diversi soggetti et arie in partitura, Vol. 1

Girolamo Frescobaldi

55/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Solo, suite for harpsichord in C, TWV. 32:3

Georg Philipp Telemann

55/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Style baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

French Suite no. 3 in B minor, BWV.814

Johann Sebastian Bach

54/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Prelude and Fughetta in F major, BWV.901

Johann Sebastian Bach

54/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Il primo libro delle 12 fantasie

Girolamo Frescobaldi

60/100 +10 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

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

Balanced

Fantasia and Fughetta in D major, BWV.908

Johann Sebastian Bach

62/100 +12 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus and Style baroque — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Fantasia super Jesu, meine Freude, BWV.713

Johann Sebastian Bach

62/100 +12 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Indépendance des mains and Style baroque — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Fantasia Sesta

Girolamo Frescobaldi

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: Indépendance des mains and Style baroque — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Partita no. 1 in B flat major, BWV.825

Johann Sebastian Bach

70/100 +20 pts 24-48 weeks

close skills 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 Staccato — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Fiori musicali di diverse compositioni, A.7

Girolamo Frescobaldi

65/100 +15 pts 24-48 weeks

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

Challenge

Passacagli altro tono

Girolamo Frescobaldi

65/100 +15 pts 24-48 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Canzon Duodecima ovvero Prima

Girolamo Frescobaldi

50/100 same level 4-6 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. The skill that will carry the work: Ornements baroque and Style baroque — ornaments must be secure before the piece goes up to tempo, otherwise they break the line instead of decorating it.

Same level

Capriccio Cromatico con Ligature al Contrario

Girolamo Frescobaldi

51/100 +1 pts 4-6 weeks

close skills 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: Trilles and Style baroque — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

Sonata in C major, K.159, L.104, "La caccia"

Domenico Scarlatti

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 Rythmes pointés — 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.