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chopin 3 is the hardest,the 4th mov especiallybut if technically,it may be less harder
The fourth movement really isn't very difficult for someone with the technical facility needed to play these pieces. I imagine there are even people that could even sight read most of it. Rachmaninov's sonatas are extremely awkward (some literature has asserted that his first sonata is comparatively harder than his third concerto), while Chopin's sonatas tend to fit the hand quite nicely.Also, I've changed my vote to the Rachmaninov sonata, as I have just reexamined the music, and the Rachmaninov sonata appears to be vastly more difficult than the Liszt sonata. The duration of the sonata is also about 20 pages longer.
Quote from: abj on October 26, 2009, 04:18:44 AMThe fourth movement really isn't very difficult for someone with the technical facility needed to play these pieces. I imagine there are even people that could even sight read most of it. Rachmaninov's sonatas are extremely awkward (some literature has asserted that his first sonata is comparatively harder than his third concerto), while Chopin's sonatas tend to fit the hand quite nicely.Also, I've changed my vote to the Rachmaninov sonata, as I have just reexamined the music, and the Rachmaninov sonata appears to be vastly more difficult than the Liszt sonata. The duration of the sonata is also about 20 pages longer. I agree totally. Except the fact that the first sonata is harder than the Rach 3. It's definitely hard, but the Rach 3 is definitely worse. I could conceive that the first sonata might be harder than the second though.