Felix Blumenfeld 24 Preludes - difficulty

[handz]

Hello

Is there anyone who played through this set and could provide some advice on those preludes? I Love many of them but a lot of them sounds quite difficult (which is sometimes not necessarily true). Which are the least demanding in your opinion?

Thank you

[visitor]

i'm sad  you didn't get any replies. although i have not played the preludes i did use an etude a while back and i was taken aback by how well written for the piano the music was. poked around a few other pieces, same thing. It feel like and i'm almost certain the music was composed at the piano, shows very good layout between the hands texture and the technical challenges can almost always be mapped out and mastered with basic keyboard hand positioning ie principles of sound fingering, logical distribution of voices between hands and jumping around that although not always easy, is not unnecessarily or impossibly hard.

you'll miss out on great music that may not be as challenging as it sounds if you go by listening and glancing the score, you gotta spend some time w the pieces, more than a couple weeks to get an idea of how it will play out.

my advice, pick what you like, or several, spend a few months learning, and if you have progressed little or are frustrated, then set them down, move on and come back at some point in the future. you'll not be a worse pianist for wrestling w/ the pieces while you did even if you don't finish them

[ianw]

There's only one of the preludes listed on the www.pianosyllabus.com site - Prelude No 21 in B flat major,  which is shown at grade 7 on a scale of 0 to 10.

The only other Blumenthal piece listed there is Moment Lyrique Op 27 No 1, at grade 6.