my question is simply, 'how one earth is the left hand played evenly and without tension??' I've heard all the correct stuff on technique but it doesn't seem to work. It beats me how you can handle a stream of fast notes like this without seizing up in the forearm. surely there's no getting away from the fact your fingers have to work damn hard! do you rest your left arm with full weight on the keys? do you use a light finger staccato action? don't you have to keep the left hand volume down for a nice texture? if you let the arm 'rest' too much surely the sound would drown out the right?
Fingering... good question! Well for 2 months i started out ignoring the fingering in the edition (Peters), instead doing a '2nd finger over the top' system, with with the thumb anchored on the octave all the time. It seemed simpler and easier to drill that way. Now i've come to the conclusion the constant 'twisting over' it made me do is causing horrible stress in the tendons. So i'm using Peters' fingering now, it looks fussier but once learnt hopefully it will reduce tension. Wish me luck!