A contemporary work by Lucas Trevizan that utilizes lush, expansive harmonies to create a deeply emotional narrative. It reflects a modern approach to the traditional cantabile piano form.
The main difficulty is sustaining long melodic phrases across complex, dense chordal textures.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Canto da Humanidade is rated Henle level 5 of 9 — late intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 6–7. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 7.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 5 — meaning you can already play level 4–5 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Canto da Humanidade lasts about 4 minutes.
Canto da Humanidade is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Barcarolle by Xaver Scharwenka, Blumenklage by Gustav Lange, Ballade No.2 by Nicolás Ruiz Espadero — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.