How would you play this piano piece with only two hands?

[coldness]

Here is a link to the sheets from youtube.

Starting on measure 19 at about 39 seconds in, there are chords that are too large to do. There's also that really large one on measure 37.

Lastly, how would you grade this piece in difficulty?

[pianoman53]

It's just extremely poorly written, since it's not possible to play it without sacrificing something. It's clearly someone who just sat with Finale or Sibelius, and just added notes, without any sense of piano writing.. or harmony.... or melody...

[coldness]

The first link I gave was a transcription from an album titled Leaf Piano Collection Volume 1, and a youtue video shows the original piano piece.

I was assuming since it sounds exactly the same, and that it was in an album, that it could be played by a single person.

[alistaircrane4]

The vertical line that is before the chords in measure nineteen means that they are to be rolled. Not played as a single chord.

[liszt1022]

Regardless, it's not meant for one hand. The original recording seems to have been done in layers. If you want a two-hand version, keep the octaves in the right hand and refigure the other parts into just left hand.

[j_menz]

As a piano piece, it's spectacularly badly written. It's possible to play, breaking chords and redistributing, but much much more difficult than the results justify.

There seems to be a plague of such writing around, and a pox on their composers!