The suites aren't that difficult
Doesn't get much darker than Alkan's op. 63 no. 8 titled "Chanson de la Folle au bord de la mer" which translates into something like "Mad women at the edge of the sea".Its well within you difficulty level & sounds great. I've attached the sheets & an mp3.
Literally dark:Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 5 "Black keys"Scriabin Sonata no. 9 "Black Mass"
Another literally dark pieceHandel Air and variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite in E, HWV 430
? That peice isn't dark at all.
Indeed not, so one must perhaps suppose that the writer who suggested it was seeking merely to make some kind of point about the blackness of the varied smith as portrayed by the German composer in question whom the British adopted as English (an arguably black art in itself).Before this thread "progresses" any farther (if indeed it does), perhaps someone might like to venture a definition of the word "peice"...Or pehaps not...Best,Alistair