Piano concertos, Advice please Options

[kathy]

Please could you suggest some impressive piano concertos that I could learn around DipABRSM / LRSMlevel. Preferably Romantic.
Thanks!

[fsharpminor]

The Schumann A minor is the obvious one, its easier than the Grieg. But these are both easier than Brahms/Tchaik/Rach etc
Unless you want to do Beethoven in which case Id suggest No 3 as being quite approachable.

[Invidia]

It's not Romantic, but the Ravel Concerto in G is around that level. I don't have any experience of the final movement, but I found the first two fairly straightforward. I definitely wouldn't place it at a higher level of difficulty than his Sonatine.

Also perhaps the Chopin 2nd? It is by no means "easy", but no more difficult than other Chopin on the LRSM list (the Scherzos/Ballades/Etudes).

In all honesty, I think the pianist who could tackle and pass LRSM could also tackle the Tchaik 1.

If you are going to tackle one of the Rachmaninoff concertos, then there is no reason at all why you should be put off, I would just say don't expect to master any one of them in a short space of time; unless you are one of these prodigies you really do need years of living and breathing this kind of repertoire to stand a chance of a good performance.

A friend of mine recently played Saint-Saens 5th which was beautiful. No idea of how difficult it is though.

[pianoeater]

Yes to all the above. Also check out Mendelssohn and Liszt (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[VH2]

And don't forget that many of Mozart's concertos are relatively straigtforward (As in it is is not hard to play all the right notes. Giving a musically convincing perormance is another matter).