Hello people!

For some odd reason , I've been listeng to Gershwin A LOT these days...
I really liked the preludes , so does anybody knows what grade do they fit?

Thanks

Hey funny you should say that, I have had my Gershwin cd in my player for the last few days. I do enjoy listening to the music, I think the preludes would be too difiicult for me to play but they are so interesting, especially rhythmically. I think the first and third must be at least grade 8 standard but I haven't seen the sheet music.

Yay! that makes two of us!

yeah , the preludes are splendid ,especially rythmically , as you said , I really feel my heart beating with the time signature!

I love the preludes, although I can't play the 2nd one because of the giant left hand span! I think they've come up on grade 8 lists before as well as dipABRSM and equivalent.

I adore his piano concerto as well

I'm actually obsessed with rhapsody in blue...although its not me that plays it well not the piano anyway. my school orchestra played it last year and i played the trumpet in it but iv loved it ever since

I have a Music Minus One copy of Rhapsody in Blue, I enjoy playing it along with the orchestra from the comfort of my own home!

The three preludes were originally in the old diploma syllabus for the DipABRSM. You were given the option to play any two of the three preludes.

Merci everyone!

oh so lucky the chance of me ever playing it is not even existent...so im (not really) content with listing to Cds and singing along xxx

I performed Numbers 1 and 2 for my Advanced Certicate (similar to DipABRSM) in 1998. They were really fun pieces to learn and play. Number 2 has some wide stretches and the middle section really got my brain working hard at first. Try it, you'll see what I mean.

I seem to recall that the 2nd Gershwin prelude was set for grade 7 piano ABRSM probably around the mid to late 1970s. Don't know about the other 2 I would think they are aroung grade 8 to dip;oma level to really bring them off.