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This is probably one of the most difficult passages in Romantic piano music.  I’ve highlighted the hairpins because it is both unusual and exceedingly difficult to get louder in one hand while getting softer in the other simultaneously.  The texture is contrapuntal and very dense, of a Bach Chorale or Fugue almost, and the tempo is blazingly fast.  Remember, this is a 6/4 piece…so each of those little subdivisions are just more subdivisions of the actual pulse.  Also, the left-hand jumps all over the place, with seemingly no pattern.  It took me a long time to refine this, and I’m still working on it.  A life-long endeavor.

This is probably one of the most difficult passages in Romantic piano music.  I’ve highlighted the hairpins because it is both unusual and exceedingly difficult to get louder in one hand while getting softer in the other simultaneously.  The texture is contrapuntal and very dense, of a Bach Chorale or Fugue almost, and the tempo is blazingly fast.  Remember, this is a 6/4 piece…so each of those little subdivisions are just more subdivisions of the actual pulse.  Also, the left-hand jumps all over the place, with seemingly no pattern.  It took me a long time to refine this, and I’m still working on it.  A life-long endeavor.