Had the opportunity the other day to hear some fantastic Piazzolla tangos for Piano Trio. I'd love to play some of his music for solo piano - although I know it's available at various sheet music online places, I don't know what the difficulty level is. Can anyone recommend any solo piano Piazzolla work that is at least dipABRSM/LRSM standard?

Why does it have to be at that level - if it's easier you can still play it for fun, surely?

I'd really rather like to take it into college and be able to play it at tutorial - and at Masters level there's an expectation of degree of difficulty. I have considered picking up some transcription of Libertango for fun, but just wondered if there was any repertoire out there (#### tango stuff) that would also work for college.

Hello again Bing! Hope Trinity is still going well. (I've now signed on the dotted line, which means I'm trying to find the $$$£££ now...).

I've been looking for the same - or rather, specifically, a piano transcription of Adios Nonino. I took a quick look online at the sample pages of transcriptions available, and they seem very - well, basic.

This is not what I want, not because I need the music to be difficult enough to fit into a conservatoire course (yet), but simply because there's so much more you can do with a Piazzolla tune, even with just two hands. There don't seem to be any even slightly virtuosic transcriptions available - though I could be wrong. I vaguely remember finding details of a virtuosic piano recording, but not sheet music.

So what I'm planning to do is to work out my own transcription, from the amazing recording by Sexteto Major (I'd recommend anything they've recorded, but the only album I know of is called Quejas de Bandoneon - available by order). What those guys do with six instruments is more like what I'm looking for in a transcription, but there just doesn't seem to be anything like that available.

Maybe I'll buy the sheet music for one of those basic transcriptions, as a guide. If I'm unfortunately right and there isn't better sheet music available, maybe working out your own version on top of the basic sheet music is the only thing to do.

(I'm still try to work out what unlikely tool I can scrape across the strings to get the vicious col legno slashes in the last section - and how to reassure the owners of the pianos I practice on that I mean no harm!).

If you do find anything, I'd be very interested. When I get round to working out this transcription I'll definitely let you know.

Good luck!