Trouble choosing late Scriabin piece

[rtheunissen]

Hello all,

For my next semester, one of the things I have to play is a contemporary piece. I love late Scriabin, and my teacher is letting me choose between the following:
Etude Op. 65 No. 2
Prelude Op. 74 No. 3
Prelude Op. 74 No. 5
I can't decide, so I would love to hear which piece is your favorite and which you think is less or more difficult...

Thank you all in advance!

[roboute guilliman cfa]

The etude is the most interesting and most technically beneficial one. The left hand hand writing with the greater-than-octave spans in these short arpeggios, involving wrist rotation, is in the vein of other Scriabin works (sonatas, op 42 etudes) and helps with other music too, like some of the Rach preludes, Ravel une barque sur l'ocean, and more advanced Liszt pieces. I also like the exposure to the chromatic major sevenths, it comes up very rarely in most music but it helps the brain to learn these new hand positions and motions involved.

[klavikord]

I played around with op 73 no 1.  It has a really solid pattern throughout, and I think has the potential to as a single piece, mesmerize audiences with a dedicated and imaginative performance.  Op 74 is wonderful, but I think on the whole the 5 pieces work best as a unit.  That could be good to approach one of them, as it could begin to open the door to playing the whole set.  A little bit earlier but still in late style, is op 58.  I have found when I played that, that people really found it fascinating and accessible.  Op 74 is really a whole nother ballgame in terms of miniatures.  Interpretively more of a kaleidescope of possibilities.