There's something weird about Chasse-Neige...

[pianogeek_cz]

I was bored to death this afternoon, so I printed out Chasse-Neige, more less just to see for myself that it really is as bloody difficult as it looks on paper and everyone is saying.

Surprise, I was more less able to sight-read it HS and after some fifteen minutes of work on one tricky-looking passage, with leaps and all, I was able to play it HT! 

But I don't like it. It's coming waaay too easily to be true, especially with all those references from concert pianists I know. So the question is, where is the difficulty? It seems that the tremolos themselves are not such a problem... Leaps can be managed... Is it stamina? Will it become obvious only after some time spent practicing (Week)? Or is it somehow possible that I managed to sail past it right away (which I don't deem probable)?

I'm very curious about this...

[pianiststrongbad]

Try playing it at the correct tempo.

[pianogeek_cz]

Try playing it at the correct tempo.

Yeah, HS was at tempo... HT part didn't take long to get to tempo.

[emmdoubleew]

1. Did you try the cadenza?
2. Can you post a rec so we can judge how well you really are playiing it?

[kriskicksass]

It's always amazing to hear yourself sight-read something that's really difficult, but it probably won't impress many other people. That's why I almost never sight-read for people.

[chadefa1]

It's always amazing to hear yourself sight-read something that's really difficult, but it probably won't impress many other people. That's why I almost never sight-read for people.

I agree. I never realized how hard it was to sight-read before I tried myself. I always assumed that pianists, somehow, magically learned how to sight-read. Now I can't even sight-read beginners' pieces and people tell me: but they are beginner's pieces...