Scriabin Etude 8/12 or 42/5

[nontroppo]

Op. 8  no. 12 and op. 42 no. 5 are, unsurprisingly, my favorite Scriabin etudes. Which one should I play first? For reference, my technique is around the level of easier Chopin etudes (10/3, 10/5, 10/12).

[pianiststrongbad]

Both are great pieces.

I found Op. 8 No. 12 pretty manageable when I played/performed it. 

Op. 42, No. 5 is an absolute bear in my opinion. I'd consider it more difficult than all of the Chopin Etudes with the exception of possibly 25/6 and 10/2.

[visitor]

*Feelz  like I has said this before...
K, um learn both.

[khantallis123]

OMG i'm learning this 42 5 piece and people start saying "Wow, its so hard' or something and i have no idea what their saying. I must be playing it terribly wrong...

[eusebius12]

42/5 is really hard. But I think both need to be learned slowly, a la Gilels. Apparently he would practise a good deal of the time at slow tempo. The 8/12 has some difficult stretches but isn't all that fast (at least according to the tempo indications; sometimes it is played faster but you don't need to)

[khantallis123]

oops i found out i took like a whole hour each to get each  fixed