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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

Three Spirals, for violin and piano

Carlos Chávez

60/100 +5 pts 6-12 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: Passages rapides and Style moderne et contemporain — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Gentle

5 Melodies for Violin and Piano, op. 35bis

Sergei Prokofiev

60/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 2, op. 16: I. Allegro moderato

Vagn Holmboe

61/100 +6 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

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

Gentle

Le Printemps, for violin and piano, op. 18

Darius Milhaud

59/100 +4 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: Coups d'archet composés and Style moderne et contemporain — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Gentle

Serenade, for violin and piano

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

58/100 +3 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 moderne et contemporain and Vibrato — 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

Pampeana no. 1, for violin and piano, op. 16

Alberto Ginastera

66/100 +11 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Rythme d'archet complexe and Passages rapides — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Balanced

Exotic Night, for violin and piano

Ernest Bloch

65/100 +10 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 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

Encantamento, for violin and piano

Camargo Guarnieri

65/100 +10 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Three Preludes for Violin and Piano

George Gershwin

68/100 +13 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Violin Sonata no. 1 in F minor, op. 80

Sergei Prokofiev

71/100 +16 pts 28-56 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 Rythme d'archet complexe — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Violin Sonata in E minor, BB28

Béla Bartók

76/100 +21 pts 28-56 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. 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.

Challenge

Violin Sonata no. 1 in E

Arnold Bax

70/100 +15 pts 28-56 weeks

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

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Milonga en Re, tango for violin and piano

Astor Piazzolla

55/100 same level 4-6 weeks

partial transfer 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: Rythmes pointés and Style moderne et contemporain — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

2 Pieces for Violin and Piano

William Walton

55/100 same level 4-6 weeks

partial transfer 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: Passages rapides and Style moderne et contemporain — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Same level

Improvisation, for violin and piano, op. 21

Dmitry Kabalevsky

52/100 -3 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: Positions hautes and Style moderne et contemporain — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

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