Me and my friend were discussing the difficulty of Rachmaninoff’s etude Tableaux ‘little red riding hood’ and obviously both agreed it was very difficult. However, at the same time we both thought that it should be doable with an enough practice (as is typically the case I guess), we both though it certainly isn’t on the same level as most Liszt etudes but it probably is harder than MOST Chopin etudes. This was just our opinion… I was curious what pieces (in terms of pure difficulty) everyone else would compare the etude Tableaux with?
For me, this Rachmaninoff etude was easier than many of the Chopin Etudes. I felt a lot of it lay nicely under the hand and it keeps switching things up which for me is easier than the relentlessness of Chopin's Etudes.
The notion that it is easier than Chopin Etudes is absurd.