Learning Rachmaninoff Preludes

[Bacfokievrahms]

Since there have been other such topics describing the best ways to go about learning a set of pieces by a composer, I was wondering if anyone had any strategies for learning Rachmaninoff Preludes.

Do certain preludes prepare you for other preludes? And if not what pieces would be most advantageous to learn to gain technique for them?

[thierry13]

If you're up to play all the preludes, the Chopin's third etudes and Feux-follet. They are both demanding two-note etudes, that will prepare you to prelude no.9 . I spoke with Mei-Ting Sun, and he played all of those, and the prelude is the harder of those three, for him.

[Bacfokievrahms]

Ah ok so
Op. 10 No. 9 - Thirds Etude and Feux Follets

What about Op. 10 no. 7? Does anything build up to it?

Also looking through them, I suppose several of the preludes don't have glaring technical difficulties. Can pieces like this be prepared for through other pieces?