the freaking easiest piano concerto?

[elenka]

Hi!

According to your experience what is the easiest in absolute piano concerto that a young pianist can try to study? I mean with a grade 7 or 8?

[49410enrique]

the 'easiest' i've seen is the mathew edwards concerto for young pianists.

[philb]

Most people usually start with Haydn, most of his concertos are around 7-8. Probably would be the best starting point.

[thalbergmad]

Once you get to around grade 7 level, you can start to look at early classical concertos.

There have been several threads on this subject in the past and indeed the Haydn does seem to be a popular first choice, but there are several alternatives from the likes of Abel, Arne, Avison, JC & WF Bach, Burgess, Clementi, Benda, Chilcot, Galuppi, Giordani, Dittersdorf, Hoffmeister, Hook, Kozeluch, Nichelmann, Paisiello, Paradis and gawd knows how many others. Many are on IMSLP and some still exist in modern editions.

A whole World will begin to open up before you as your powers increase.

Thal 

[49410enrique]

in addition to the mathew edwards i mentioned (i only mentioned that one since it is the only 'easy' student concerto that i have actually looked at the score for and since it is written for smaller hands there were less 'manual gymnastics' overall, it's at a used book shop i frequent),
amazon shows several avail, but i believe sheet music plus sells it too
https://www.amazon.com/Concerto-Young-Pianists-Composer-Intermediate/dp/0634051962/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1338850782&sr=8-2-spell

 this list is also considered suitable for younger players. although it still assumes a high level of natural talent, good instruction, and lots of disciplined practice on the part of the performer (based on some of the reccomendations, that is, they are certainly not easy, but they are more approachable than the big dogs we normally hear in the standard line up).

PDF

[49410enrique]

these  too
classical style
1 2 3

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Concerto-in-C-Major/3664887


romantic style
1 only

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Concerto-Romantique/3699440

[elenka]

wow thanks a lot for your answers actually I still don't know which grade I am, but for curiosity I wanted to ask more and less about the easiest piano concertos. I confess that I don't mind try one day to play one of them, maybe with a real orchestra who knows I'm daydreaming I know