Rank difficulty and amount of benefit

[Bacfokievrahms]

Hi I'm thinking about learning some/most/all of these pieces but I'd like to know which ones would be hardest and which ones would give me the most technical benefit that I could use in the others.

Rachmaninoff
Prelude op. 23 no. 7
Etudes Tableux op. 39 no. 5

Scriabin
Etude op. 8 no. 12

Schubert
Impromptu op. 90 no. 3

Profokiev
Suggestion Diabolique op. 4 no. 4

Chopin
Prelude op 28 no. 14

[quantum]

The Scriabin will give you good experience with very wide LH arpeggios and chordal passages.  This can definately cary on to many other pieces, plus its really fun to play!

Things to focus on: pedal point, harmonic prgression, balance in the different levels of activity.  Focus on creating contrast and color each time a motif reapears.  There is a chain of 4th species counterpoint used very effectively near the end. 

[nanabush]

The prelude sounds awesome, just heard a random recording of it... It sounds so frustrating lol...

[Bacfokievrahms]

The Scriabin will give you good experience with very wide LH arpeggios and chordal passages.  This can definately cary on to many other pieces, plus its really fun to play!

Things to focus on: pedal point, harmonic prgression, balance in the different levels of activity.  Focus on creating contrast and color each time a motif reapears.  There is a chain of 4th species counterpoint used very effectively near the end. 

Ah thanks for the reply. That's great I really wanted to get to this one early on. God I glanced at the sheetmusic while listening to this but it was just a glance, and I had no idea until I printed out the sheet music and looked at it that all that was played with the left hand! This is going to be a lot of fun (and will definitely take a long time to play to satisfaction) and certain sections seem as if they'll prepare me well for the rach etude. Good suggestion.

The prelude sounds awesome, just heard a random recording of it... It sounds so frustrating lol...

Which prelude? The chopin prelude indeed sounds frustrating but the rach prelude is kinda frustrating to play and definitely frustrating in terms of deciding how I want to finger it and the part with the 5/3 rh/lh is going to be interesting.

[nanabush]

Sorry, I meant the Chopin prelude, but it is very very short.