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Offline fuel925

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Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
on: December 11, 2005, 05:37:32 PM
What would consider to be some of the best pieces at approximately the leve of grades 4 and 5?

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #1 on: December 11, 2005, 06:56:11 PM
I'm currently learning the Nocturne No 5 by John Field - it is grade 5. Not hard to learn and very beautiful!

Maybe some pieces from Schumann's 'Kinderszenen' - I've learned the first one and the well known 'Träumerei'.

Some pieces out of Grieg's Lyric Pieces are around grade 5, too - the Arietta is beautiful, and so are a lot of others!

There's quite a lot of great music that is not that hard...

Ohh, I almost forgot - there are the etudes by Stephen Heller (I've found them thanks this forum). I'm learning some pieces out of op. 45 (1,2,15,18) - some of them might be around grade 5, too. Opus 46 has some easier ones...

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #2 on: December 12, 2005, 10:38:17 AM
Nice suggestions, thanks!

I already play Arietta, and also Traumerei (although this one needs brushing up). I am also learning Ballade from Griegs Lyric pieces. I've listened to the Field Nocturne after reading your post, and I really like it. I've printed off the sheet music and I am going to start learning it today, so thanks for that :)
I have the sheet music for the Op.46 and Op.47 Heller studies, so i'll have a flick through there at some point and see if I can find something I like.

Any more suggestions from anyone are very welcome!

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #3 on: December 12, 2005, 03:42:14 PM
Lyrical Waltz by Shostakovich
Mendelssohn andante sostenuto
Griffinisque (forgotten the composer, sorry)
these were in the grade 5 trinity a couple of years ago and were fun to play
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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #4 on: December 12, 2005, 04:24:16 PM
Lyrical Waltz by Shostakovich
Mendelssohn andante sostenuto
Griffinisque (forgotten the composer, sorry)
these were in the grade 5 trinity a couple of years ago and were fun to play
Thanks, do you have any ideas where I could find the midi files for those pieces?

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #5 on: December 12, 2005, 07:53:15 PM
Griffinesque is by Edward Elgar.

Do you know which opus number the Mendelssohn 'Andante sostenuto' is? I could only find one from Kinderstücke (Children's Pieces) op 72.

@fuel95: If you need the sheet music, I have it for Griffinesque (only one page long and looks quite easy, never played it though).

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #6 on: December 12, 2005, 08:28:47 PM
Griffinesque is by Edward Elgar.

Do you know which opus number the Mendelssohn 'Andante sostenuto' is? I could only find one from Kinderstücke (Children's Pieces) op 72.

@fuel95: If you need the sheet music, I have it for Griffinesque (only one page long and looks quite easy, never played it though).
I'd really appreciate the sheet music for Griffinesque :) Is it a link or do you need to send me the file?

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #7 on: December 13, 2005, 04:17:14 AM
Beethoven op. 49, if you like Beethoven piano sonatas. No. 2 is really good.
Medtner, man.

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #8 on: December 13, 2005, 09:11:06 AM
I'd really appreciate the sheet music for Griffinesque :) Is it a link or do you need to send me the file?

You can get it here:

https://rapidshare.de/files/9086233/Elgar_-_Griffinesque.gif.html

It's just one gif-file...

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #9 on: December 13, 2005, 01:43:17 PM
Thanks a lot, I will print it and give it a blast later :)

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #10 on: December 15, 2005, 02:09:13 PM
Thanks a lot, I will print it and give it a blast later :)

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #11 on: December 15, 2005, 04:34:52 PM

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #12 on: December 17, 2005, 03:11:24 PM
andante sostenuto from Christmas Pieces op72
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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #13 on: December 20, 2005, 09:19:52 AM
Tchaikovsky's Seasons Album. Some of the pieces are quite accessable for grades 4/5, especially March, May, April. Lovely piano works. Kids get very inspired.

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #14 on: December 20, 2005, 10:42:20 AM
andante sostenuto from Christmas Pieces op72
who's the composer?

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Re: Best Pieces In The Grade 4/5 Repertoire?
Reply #15 on: December 21, 2005, 03:19:10 PM
Mendellssohn
You either do or do not. There is no try- Yoda

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