I've just recently started "re-practicing" Rachmoninoffs Etude Tabluex No. 6 and found it to be rather difficult for me. My teacher says that she wants the song to be perfercted by the middle of March/April and after seeing/hearing how the song is played (I have played it once for perfomance but was rather messy.) I wonder if anyone has ever played this song, or any song of this caliber or higher, perfectly with clean notes?
Think not so much about technique but of musicality... this is Rachmaninoff, and although you want it as clean as possible more importantly it needs to be intense