liszt's ninth transcendental etude. Any help?

[Molson]

If anyone could offer any suggestions, it would really help.

[ned]

"Ricordanza?"  No replies so far, so I'll say something. A very beautiful piece! It's rich, varied and passionate. In my opinion, it could stand on its own in a recital, in other words without other etudes in a group.  I too would like to learn it some day. I have only worked on the first etude and Harmonies du Soir.
Maybe someone else has done it.
Ned  

[trunks]

Ricordanza! A lovely piece and the most touching in the set.

Reading the exact notes from the score could be the most tedious part. Make sure you mark down your preferred fingerings, especially in the small notes which should prove to be the most difficult parts in this etude.

My suggestion is to practise all the small-note passages slowly until you are at ease with them, then carry on to the rest.

[trunks]

That was how I practise and memorise this piece . . . retrospectively: backwards, beginning from the coda section by section right back till the introduction . . . AND with a broken heart.

I find the coda such an effective, touching conclusion to the whole piece. So touching that I just couldn't leave it until the end. I was so profoundly heart-broken that I just had to play the coda every practice session to soothe my anguish, to let my heart sob through all my sorrows and weep until I run out of tears.

So that was Ricordanza . . . the only piece that I had ever been working on backwards.