Is Chopin Ballade 1 Hard?

"It's very hard. I think it's one of the hardest pieces in the repertoire. It's, what, about 10 minutes of music, and in those 10 minutes you have to express a world, and a continuous world. That's a difficulty because it can get segmented, it can get 'this little bit is like this' and 'that little bit is like that'."

What level is Chopin Ballade 1?

Re: How hard/grade is Chopin Ballade no1? For reference Op 64 No 2 is graded as an 8 on the Piano Syllabus database, while the Ballade is substantially harder at grade 10.

Which Ballade is the easiest?

The world we classical performers live in gives us very little room not to play big show pieces, or make everything we play into one. Chopin's third ballade suffers particularly from this problem. The ballades are all difficult, but it's the easiest of them (sort of like the shortest Himalaya).