Que jouer après Romanza for Violin and Piano, H.115 ?

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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Rève d'enfant, for violin and piano, op. 14

Eugene Ysaÿe

60/100 +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: Voix chantante and Changements de position — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

2 Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 6

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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

Gentle

Elegie no. 2, for violin and piano, S.131

Franz Liszt

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). 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

Lullaby, for violin and piano, op. 52, M58, "La berceuse d'Aïtacho Enia"

Karol Szymanowski

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: Voix chantante and Legato d'archet — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

Elegie no. 1, for violin, piano and harmonium, S.130ter

Franz Liszt

58/100 +3 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Violin Sonata no. 3 in C minor, op. 45

Edvard Grieg

67/100 +12 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: Connaissance des formes and Positions hautes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Violin Sonata, H.127

Enrique Granados

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). 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.

Balanced

Souvenir d'un lieu cher, for violin and piano, op. 42

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

64/100 +9 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: Voix chantante and Ornements romantiques — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Balanced

La Lugubre gondola, for violin and piano, S.134bis

Franz Liszt

63/100 +8 pts 12-24 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Vibrato — what matters is a steady sustained tone: bow speed, contact point and pressure even, before any thought of speed.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Violin Sonata no. 2 in E minor, op. 108

Gabriel Fauré

74/100 +19 pts 28-56 weeks

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

Challenge

Violin Sonata no. 1 in D minor, op. 75

Camille Saint-Saëns

71/100 +16 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: Analyse harmonique and Positions hautes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61

Ludwig van Beethoven

75/100 +20 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: Contrôle du toucher — what matters is a steady sustained tone: bow speed, contact point and pressure even, before any thought of speed.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Pièce en forme de Habanera, for violin and piano

Maurice Ravel

57/100 +2 pts 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: Spiccato and Rythmes pointés — practise it slowly, separating left hand from bow: bow alone on open strings, then the fingering silently.

Same level

Violin Sonata in A minor, D.385, op. posth.137, no. 2

Franz Schubert

53/100 -2 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: Analyse harmonique and Changements de position — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

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