Pieces that look difficult but are not that hard to play?

[pianoplayjl]

I've seen a thread vice versa before, but not a thread similar to this one. I know this sounds weird, but does anyone know of any pieces in the piano repertoire that look hard but are not that hard to play/ easier than you think?

JL

[j_menz]

I'd have thought the greater interest would be in pieces that sound hard but are actually quite easy. If someone is looking at the score, they're probably not so easily fooled anyway.

[williampiano]

I remember I used to think Chopin's Polonaise op. 26 no. 1 looked like it would be incredibly difficult, but then when I actually sight read through it, it wasn't as complex as I had expected.

[lio689]

- The first etude op 25 of Chopin, for me seemed to be difficult and when I looked on the sheet it was quite easy to play (musicality is an other challenge)
- You can have a look on some of the preludes of Scriabin too (Op. 17 n°3 for example)
- Also on the Sospiro of Liszt, there is several difficulties but if you have a bit of experience it's totaly approchable
- The first piece on the "Harmonies poétiques et religieuses", "Invocation" of Liszt too
- Humm, that's it, there is certainly a lot of other pieces i'm not thinking about but it's late in Belgium so my mind is deep in the mist...

[sevencircles]

It has been played to death but the Rach transcription of Flight of the Bumble Bee isn´t very hard to learn to play fast. It sounds really hard to laymen