Romantic pieces

[elsie07]

Can anyone recommend a large-scale Romantic work around the level of the Brahms Waltzes Op. 39 or the Chopin Mazurkas?  I'm trying to choose a longer piece or collection of pieces to learn, and although I have a few ideas, I'm open to suggestions of what I should take a look at.  No guarantee that I'll actually learn any of those suggestions, but it might provide a bit of direction.  Thanks!

[slobone]

Umm... the Chopin Mazurkas are definitely large-scale -- there are 57 of them! You surely don't mean you plan to play the whole set at one sitting?

That makes it hard to know what to recommend -- Schumann's Carnaval, or Grieg's Lyric Pieces (another big set), or... Could you narrow it down a little for us?

[elsie07]

Oh, I don't mean that I'm going to play all the Chopin mazurkas.  Maybe not even some of them.  I was just using them as a reference point for other large-scale works of similar difficulty.  I am considering the mazurkas (just one opus - not sure which one, if I do it) and the Brahms, but was wondering what are some other pieces I might want to take a look at for future playing.

I'll check out the Schumann and Grieg.  Thanks.

[healdie]

if you can get the ABRSM Schuman album leaves book i know that it is part of a collection named easier piano pieces but there is a good range of difficulty the easist according to this site is a level 3 and there is only one of these many of the others are 8+ also Schumann and Brahms sit nicly together on one program i recetly saw a performance of Schumanns Piano concerto, and his Allegro Appasionata for Pianoa dn orchestra and to finish it of they did Brahms's 4th symphony

[sharon_f]

Look at Schumann's Papillon Op. 2

[thalbergmad]

Look at Schumann's Papillon Op. 2

I agree.

Look at it but don't play it.

Thal

[sissco]

Bortkiewicz - Roman for Klavier Op. 35
Granados - Valses Poeticos
Mendelssohn - Songs Without Words (Op. 62 maybe?)
Saint Saens - 6 bagatelles Op. 3
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