Piano Forum

Difficult middle part, eh?  I would suggest -- 1.  At measures 22 and 24, in the left hand, don't use the thumb on the C-sharp, use the second finger.  This C-sharp falls on a weaker beat of the measure, so using the thumb on it puts the natural strengths of the hand in opposition to the rhythmic demands of the music at that point.  Similarly for the D-sharp of the left hand in measures 26 and 28.  2.  At measures 25 and 27, I don't think there is any ideal fingering for the sixths in the right hand.  I don't like the feel of fingering the first sixth as 52 and the second as 41.  I think I would prefer 31, 52, 31, 41.  3.  If at measure 32 the left hand is giving you grief, try fingering it in such a way as to place the thumb on the lower, rather than the higher, of the two notes!  It's wild but has worked for me.  4.  When you get to measure 38, take stock of where you are, harmonically speaking.  It seems as though you are about to slam into an F-sharp minor chord, but of course you don't;  you modulate to an implicit B-minor and then to an implicit E-minor and then to that all-important dominant, B-major.  Thinking about the underlying harmony helps to put the technical demands in perspective, and prepare for the return in triumph of the dominant B-major at measure 42.  5.  There are places in the right hand after measure 45 where 21 works better as a fingering for the lower sixths than 31 does.