Consider also the wild, progressively wider leaps in Liszt's La leggierezza (immediately before the ending line). Play easy and split between two hands? Nope . . . play with RH alone, again I insist!
I mean, you have the space of a sixteenth note to move your hand down, and its far easier with the right... So Why not?
I find the revolutionary very difficult, despite everyone's claims.
With that said, the bottom line is you are trying to make the best music you can even if this is an etude. If you can make it better by using your right hand then I would say do it in performance.
Wait, this topic is way old.
Hehe yeh i know, but why risk messing up? I mean, this doesnt really matter that much does it?
As for the aspect of performing the piece, I actually still agree with my original thought that one can play the piece however necessary, given that your goal is to provide the audience with good music. I would never 'lose respect' for a pianist because he/she chose a different fingering than I, especially if they were able to arrive at a convincing result. However, if you are simply aiming to please the technicians, then YMMV.
The primary goal of this and nearly every etude out there is not to provide good music for an audience (of course that is a fantastic by-product of all of chopin's etudes, and people love hearing them so they are played a lot), but to develop technical facility and musical growth for the pianist. If you cheat you are only hurting yourself and people DO notice if you play a LH etude with the RH. It is not a matter of fingering... choose what fingering you will and if it sounds good I won't judge, but for a passage SPECIFICALLY designed for the LH, to play it with the RH is almost blasphemy.
Well, at LEAST 90% of the people from this forum thinks playing it with right hand is stupid. Think about that