Rachmaninoff Moment Musicaux #6 fingering?

[Legato]

Does anyone play this piece?  The right hand fingering seems intuitive: I can connect the melody notes well while playing the C-E-C "noise" with 1 and 3, but the left hand fingering is not as clear.  Any thoughts?

Rob

[JeffL]

I don't play this piece but I've looked through it. Your question is not clear to me. I guess you mean by melody-notes the quavers that appear as a subsidiary-figure an octave apart between the hands rather than the real, chorale-like. melody which is fleshed-out in beefy chords in the right hand?
This being so, my edition (International Music company gives(from beat 2 in bar 1) in the right hand 2-1-1-1 and in the left 3-4-4-5. Are you worried that this doesn't produce a legato line? If so try RH 2-1-2-1 LH 3-4-3-4. Alternatively don't worry with all that noise going on; perhaps Rachmaninoff intended this figure to be hammered out, adding to the general clangour, and didn't imagine a smooth legato for this figure.

[Womble]

what edition are you using for this piece? I am trying to find an edition of the moments musicaux but with no success apart from Shirmer which i dont like

[JeffL]

I don't know whether the question is addressed to the original poster or myself, but, as I stated, I have the International Music Company edition edited by Isidor Philipp which I bought in London for 18 shillings (we've gone metric since then!);perhaps it is no longer available. What's wrong with the Schirmer?

[Legato]

JeffL, you are exactly right; not the "beefy" chords.  i finally settled on the following fingering (decending melody beginning in measure one): 5-3-4-4-5-5 in left and 1-2-1-1-1-1 in the right.  this is the fingering i would use to play the each chord unbroken.  although i think one could make an argument for a more legato fingering, this is most intuitive for me.

i have the boosey and hawkes edition.  

rob