Very nice!

I had been using ABRSM exam books for practice material, but after a while I had to admit how boring they were. Then I found a set of old-edition Suzuki books online and, whatever you think of the "method", those books contain quite a large selection of material, so I'll be looking at the Bach, Beethoven and Boccherini myself.

ABRSM stands for Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

They are one of the main examining boards in the UK. It basically means the Royal College of Music (RCM - not to be confused with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada!) and the Royal Academy of Music combined. There may be others.

Whereas in the USA you audition for conservatory at age 18, and how you get that far is up for grabs, hence the popularity of the Suzuki method, in the UK you have exams from grades 1 to 8, where 8 is a suitable level for conservatory entry. Your teacher chooses increasingly difficult pieces for you to work on until you get there. You still have to audition, but the pathway there is what we have instead of a "method".

For example, the first movement of Bach's BWV1001 is a grade 8 exam piece, as is Kreutzer 10. The Corelli Sarabande is a grade 2 piece. On the way to grade 8 there are some nice pieces, but many boring ones.

There is a small amount of equivalence between the ABRSM pathway and the Suzuki method, although Suzuki seems far more rigorous, and Sukuki 8, 9 and 10 seem like an endless array of concerto movements, whereas for grade 8 oboe, all I had to do was the Hindemith sonata, Britten's Metamorphoses after Ovid and the first movement of the Mozart concerto. I have no recollection of any piano work, except for the slow movement of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata, that was grade 5, and after grade 8 I worked on the first movement of the Pathétique until my scholarship ended when I was 18.