You could learn this in a few days with ease.
franz, we're not all prodigies like you. I completely disagree with your time frames i am working on this ballade and the first slow section takes me forever. a lot more than 30 minutes! and it's not like this peice is way out of my league.
franzliszt2,so you have played this Ballade yourself? How much hours did you spend on learning it from the scratch?I looked in the audition room for a recording of you, but I didn't find any. Please don't make such foolish statements, if you can't prove, you're a greater genius than Mr. Kastle...
I must admit I am not good at advice on the double note sections in the coda, that came easier to me than the rest of the ballade, my teacher give me millions of double note etudes and stuff for yearss so that came easy to me.
Ok the 1st section takes for ages...but how long are you prepared to work? Do you think I was working on 3 hours a day?? I was on at least 6! Which i a hell of a lot for 1 piece