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Barbara Arens - Sparkling Splashes & Smooth Water (from The Mermaid Challenge)
ABRSM Grade 2 – A1
Resources & links This piece is available for individual purchase as a digital download here or in print as part of the Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026 Grade 2 publication here. You can listen to a recording of this piece and others from this grade on Spotify using this link.... Read >>
Trad. German (arr. Blackwell) - Muss i denn
ABRSM Grade 1 – A2
Resources & links This piece is available for individual purchase as a digital download here or in print as part of the Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026 Grade 1 publication here. Open domain editions are also available here. You can listen to a recording of this piece and others from this grade... Read >>
Mendelssohn - Musical Sketch in B-Flat (No. 1 from Two Musical Sketches)
ABRSM Grade 7 – B3
Preview (please log-in or subscribe to see full video) Resources & links This piece is available for individual purchase as a digital download here or in print as part of the Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026 Grade 7 publication here. Open domain editions are also available here. You can listen to a recording of this piece and others from this grade on Spotify using this link. ... Read >>
Naomi Yandell - Secret Footpath
ABRSM Initial Grade – B3
Naomi Yandell’s gently expressive Secret Foothpath presents the top melodic line in a fragmented fashion, each short phrase interspersed by rests. This gives the player the opportunity to cultivate sensitivity to phrase shaping using drop-roll motions in the wrist, listening carefully to tonal balance between the hands. Preview (please log-in or subscribe to see full video) Resources & links This piece is available for digital download individually from the ABRSM shop here or in print as part of the Piano Exam Pieces 2023 & 2024... Read >>
Kristina Arakelyan - Daydream
ABRSM Grade 2 – C3
The composer says of this piece: “It is about getting lost in our thoughts, discovering a beautiful world which lives within us and expressing it through music.” After the introduction, built from broken chords in a spinning pattern, we find the theme in the right hand, imitated a bar later by the left hand. There are two places that require the pedal, both involving crossing the left hand over the right. Preview (please log-in or subscribe to see full video) Resources & links This piece is available... Read >>
Mozart - Allegro in F (from London Sketchbook, K. 15a)
ABRSM Grade 3 – A2
Resources & links This piece is available for individual purchase as a digital download here or in print as part of the Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026 Grade 3 publication here. Open domain editions are also available here. You can listen to a recording of this piece and others from... Read >>
Kuhlau - Allegro con spirito (1st movt from Sonatina in A, Op. 60 No. 2)
ABRSM Grade 7 – A6
Friedrich Kuhlau was a Danish pianist and composer active during the late Classical and early Romantic periods who became a friend of Beethoven. His Allegro con spirito from the Sonatina in A, op. 60 no. 2 is excellent preparation for the larger-scale sonatas the pianist will encounter along their journey to the advanced levels. This movement opens starkly in unisons, establishing the serious, sombre character that prevails throughout. After the customary modulation to the dominant key for the second subject, we find a lamenting melody in C sharp minor, rather than the expected E major. The dominant key is finally... Read >>
Raymond Yiu - Canzonetta
ABRSM Grade 4 – C3
Preview (please log-in or subscribe to see full video) Resources & links This piece is available for individual purchase as a digital download here or in print as part of the Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026 Grade 4 publication here. You can listen to a recording of this piece and others from this grade on Spotify using this link. ... Read >>
A. Reinagle - Minuet in C (No. 10 from 24 Short and Easy Pieces, Op. 1)
ABRSM Grade 1 – A3
Alexander Reinagle’s white-key Minuet in C is a model of symmetry. There are four 4-bar phrases in question and answer format, the first and third ending on the dominant, the second and fourth resolving to the tonic. The melodic line is presented in the right hand, the left hand accompaniment alternating between long notes and springy quavers. This piece offers the player the opportunity to develop tonal balance between the hands and variety in touch and articulation. Preview (please log-in or subscribe to see full video) Resources &... Read >>