Chopin and Rach etudes

[patseansdad]

What are your favorite etudes?
Which are the most beautiful and profound?

Im working on the chopin op 25 no 12 which is wonderful, and im looking for a rachmaninov etude to start.

[rob47]

from rach op. 39 i'd say #1,3,4,5,7 and 9 are the most 'profound' strongest of that set

I guess  #3 or #5 would be the place to start

[gyzzzmo]

My vote goes for Chopin's 25/6. The only 'but' is that theres not much triplet etude for the left hand in it.

[patseansdad]

damn op 39 no 3 is sweet... very "profound"

[prongated]

Without the slightest doubt, Chopin's Op. 25 no. 7 for me. This Pletnev video clip on Youtube especially so; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joqtdB7mvR8

...uh wait, Liszt's Ricordanza, Harmonies Du Soir, and Chasse Neige from the Transcendental Etudes are also very beautiful...yikes...><

[nanabush]

All of Op 39 is insanely good!

I played #6 A minor last year for a competition, and I would disagree with whoever says it's the hardest of the set.  It was the most difficult thing I've learned given the time constraint, but I'd say that #1, #3 and #9 have some stuff that is on par, or more difficult, than #6.

#3 is magic though, as well as #7.  All of them are good!

[patseansdad]

wow yeah #3 is stunning

[weissenberg2]

I love all the Rachmaninoff etude-tableaux, but my favorites from are op.33 2,3 and 5. And from op.39, the ones Rob47 mentioned.

[berniano]

I love all the Rachmaninoff etude-tableaux, but my favorites from are op.33 2,3 and 5. And from op.39, the ones Rob47 mentioned.

Opus 33 no 3 is one of my absolute favorites as well, but requires alot of interpretation, atleast the first part before the meno mosso. And it's not played too often, either, since it was published posthumously and not included in many editions.

And from opus 39, no 6 is great-- I hope to study it sometime when I go to school. Might be a tchnical nightmare, though.

[nanabush]

Something that I wasn't used to in it for sure were the chord jumps.  At one point, the left hand is jumping back and forth at least an octave, playing all these different chords.  It's a very difficult piece to play accurately  ... the parts requiring finger dexterity (the first few pages) weren't bad at all, but it was those massive chords in the really heavy part that really got to me.

[berniano]

Your referring to op 39, no 6, right? I watch it on youtube--- those jumps look wild! Up for a good challenge, though