Hi.Does anyone know any good duets for piano at about grade 7/8 standard or above?I need something that can be learnt for september as my GCSE ensemble piece.Also,are there any good duets that are available free over the net? Thanks, Poppys.

Search for piano duets at:

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/


There are some really good ones there at the level you require. Some are free, some just a few pounds.

You'll need Scorch.


Here you will see the list from Advanced Level for piano duet as published by the Board.

Here is a good link for duets. Brahms and Mozart being my personal favourites

Arival of the Queen of Sheba!!!
Not too sure what grade it is, but its great fun to play!!!

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The Debussy Petite Suite is good too.

How about Faure's Dolly Suite

I agree - that is a really fun piece to play. Also, Mozart's Eine Kleine!
Mozart's piano duets are great as well.

Oooh yes, I do like this. I've just inherited it, and I'm bashing through the Primo part at the moment. Just need someone to do the Secondo. I first heard this at the Woodford forum concert last year, where Margaret and Suepea played this. Marvellous!

Have a look at the Dvořák Slavonic Dances . AP and I played one at the last forum concert. Difficulty ranges from grades 6 to about 8.

They're all available free from:

http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net

Diabelli and Clementi wrote some very nice duet music. Weber as well wrote some very tuneful pieces.

Just remembered - Brahms' Hungarian Dances and Moszkowski's Spanish Dances are excellent too!

Do you really need to learn something that hard? I did the GCSE the year before last and the hardest level you needed to play at was grade 4 or 5. I played a Sonatina by Kuhlau listed by LCM as grade 4 and got an A*. It's better to give a perfect perfomance of an easy piece than an unsure one of a harder piece.

Schubert's Fantasia in F Minor! Great piece but approximately 17 minutes long.

Rossini's overtures as piano duets are great fun for bashing! I used to play them with my Grandma. I don't know if you can still buy them though.

Thanks,i'm going to try out the dvorak duets.

Probably not suitable for a GCSE performance, but great fun nevertheless, you can get all Beethoven's symphonies as piano duets... My son and a friend played the first movement of the 5th at a school concert last year which was great fun. Son and I have also recently acquired the Planets suite (following a previous discussion in these boards) which has some rather tricky bits so we are a long way off performing that in public! Our local music library has a good selection. If you enjoy duets the Schubert Fantasia is superb (also good to play something composed as a duet rather than an arrangement) but possibly too long for GCSE

Possibly slightly easier would be the Brahms "Haydn Variations" which is also available in a duet arrangement (not all the movements) - there are also some Suppe overtures (Poet & Peasant) which are lively and playable

I remember playing the famous movement from Faure's "Dolly" suite (wasn't it "Listen with Mother" or something ) with a friend at a music festival when I was about 15-16. It is fairly straightforward - seem to remember the left hand has more of the action, but a sensitive performance would demonstrate all the listening/ playing together skills needed for GCSE I would think