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zimmerman is good enough for me. but i also don't get the part after that big trail of chords and the the pp chords...maybe that's called the coda. it just sounds like too much going on.

That is indeed the coda and known as one of the most difficult coda's in the piano repetoire.  I have been chipping away at it for many months.  The first part of it is difficult, for me, to make musical.  The next part, the ascending thirds is hard (if one were to play it up to tempo. which I doubt I will ever be able to do ) but not impossible.  The next parts are challenging but not impossible. 

The opening to this piece is very difficult to play well, and in fact the entire thing is full of challenges, both  musically and technically - and is, or should be, a life time project. 

Thanks for the recording advice - I'd like to hear Bolet and Rubenstein.

Pizno