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Topic: Difficulty of Saint Saëns piano concerto no.5 3rd movement (Read 770 times)

elizgil

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Difficulty of Saint Saëns piano concerto no.5 3rd movement

on: March 01, 2026, 12:24:38 AM

What grade would you consider the third movement of Saint Saëns piano concerto no.5 to be?

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perfect_pitch

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Re: Difficulty of Saint Saëns piano concerto no.5 3rd movement

Reply #1 on: March 01, 2026, 03:15:16 AM

Maybe get the sheet music and find out? Surely someone who is a student can usually look at a piece of music and tell whether it's almost the same difficulty as repertoire they've previously played... or if it's absolutely ghastly and well above them.

Grade??? Well above Grade 8 ABRSM & AMEB, and probably FMusA level.

How hard is it? It's quite bloody hard, but not as hard as Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto or probably not as hard as Moszkowski's 4th movement from the E Major.

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