Choosing hands and fingering in Scriabins prelude op. 37 no. 2

[alfb]

In many places in the prelude (I have the Dover edition of the complete preludes and etudes) it would be much easier to play notes with the right hand instead of jumping up and down on the keyboard with the left hand.

Why have Scriabin noted it this way? Is there a certain effect he wants? Is it for making it more difficult for practicing as a study/etude? Is it for making the noted picture clearer?

(The same question applies to the op. 37 no. 4. I now play the low octave triplets with both hands which makes it much easier to get up the speed. Before I played the low octave triplets with the left hand only and I have always had problem with fast octaves in the left hand.)

What´s your opinion about this?

Best regards
Alf

[mjames]

I am very confused. Are we looking at the same music? Both hands are played in unison for almost the entire piece. I mean it's definitely hard with the chord jumps and all but I think it looks pretty straight forward when it comes hand positioning...

EDIT: Just looked at the fourth piece and the positioning also looks fairly straight-forward. Is this the right opus or am I missing something here?

[j_menz]

I can see two places in the second bar of 34/2 where what you say is right (though given the rest of the piece that shouldn't even be an issue), but the rest of it....? Not really anywhere in 34/4..... what are we missing?