Rach prelude op. 32 no 12 (G#minor)

[taloddar2002]

Heya i have recently fallen in love with this piece by Rachmaninoff and started to learn it a few days ago.  However, my piano teacher refuses to help me with this piece so i need some advice on some fingerings.  Does anyone have the score with fingerings in it?  

Also i'm at the part where the left hand breaks into chords and then has a quick 4 note run going down first one being b, d#, b, d# (measure 16).  Does anyone have advice on the fingerings for this section?  thanks a lot

[chopiabin]

Does your teacher think that you are not ready for it?

[allchopin]

I recently played this piece in a college audition.  I had learned it in about 3 months or so (not sure exactly).  So really, it shouldn't be too much of a burden to take care of in a lesson- as far as technicaliuty goes anyway.  Musicality takes practice - listen to Horowitz's version.
For the fingering (mine are very long fingers, so this may or may not apply to you) I use 1 2 3 5, stretching but alos letting the hand open up and pivot on the keys.  With smaller hands, all you have to do is know that the 'big hand' section is coming up and that you need to get ready to accomodate the large stretch- when it comes, your hand should be alredy twisted (pivoted) to where the arched webbing between your thumb and index seem to for part of a graph of y=x^2 (hey nilsjohan, superscript font doesn't work), relative to the back of the lid.  Then, you'll need to whip the hand around (they are 16th's I believe) to where your pinky will be perpendicular to the lid.
And as always, practice it slowly.

btw, after the last set of these, for the glissando, use 5 3 2 1.

[taloddar2002]

thanks for your help!.  My teacher told that she cannot help me with this piece because she was unfamiliar with it.  Instead she keeps drilling me with Beethoven and Debussy, but everytime i mention Rachmaninoff she shrugs it off .

[allchopin]

Shrug her off!