Rondo

"Hats off, men. A genius!" (Schumann, on first hearing Chopin). You can say what you want in your "spoiler", but I have a quite different opinion.

I'm always amazed at your ability to produce a piece that, while anchored in 'tonality', explores atonality and unusual harmonies with ease. The piece was always interesting and audacious, with its vertiginous tempo, ingenuous thematic material and well-written development.

A few days ago you posted a link to Prokofiev's 8th Piano Sonata. No doubt Prokofiev, and particularly that piece, had a significant influence in this brilliant movement, which will certainly give fits to all but the most accomplished pianists when performed.

Thanks for sharing... but where's the rest of the Sonata?

How big are your hands? I know you are a pianist, so I guess you know pretty much how to write for piano (I've seen you doing it, here, and before) But I have some small concern on playability. But that might be caused by the fact that I have very small hands (span of a 9th, some 10th need to be appergiated already).

Ms 75 seems to large a chord for the left hand for me, unless you want the upper voice of the left hand chord to be played by the right hand, but that is not really solving my hand-width problem

I know you like the thick chord layering of ms 56ff. I would remove the 3rd in the bass, and when the bass gets higher add it again.

In ms 146-155 I would remove one of the grace-notes, and leave the one that is in between the following quarter.

Your maestuosos/finales have a tendency to get Lisztian proportions. I think I have hear that, (as loud as possible, as fast as possible) too often to be impressed by that. If that is the effect you are looking for: the simplicity of the first page is more awe-some, impressive.

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I am curious why you think it is terrible?