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Originally Posted by QcCowboy
hehehe that has ALWAYS been one of my favourite Prokoviev pieces to play!
That and the Toccata and Suggestions Diabolique.
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You've played this?
Well then I have a question, where would this lie on the difficulty scale for piano? I'm currently working on a trumpet and piano piece, one of the movements I'm imaging to be very very much in that sort of style, driving and rhythmic (almost sort of like the Finale of the Barber Piano Concerto). However, I'm always kind of wary of writing something that might be too much of a problem at the tempos and gestures I want. I'm of course writing all this at the piano and being pretty methodical, but I'm sure you get where I'm coming from with this. I don't want to write something that in my mind sounds good, take it to a player and then they're like, "Woah this is way too hard". For us other instrumentalists the piano can definitely be a monster to write for, even though I have written for it before (but that was a slow piece).
BTW: That Toccata is friggin insane