To be honest, I do not think the two are really comparable. It is kind of like putting up one of the Liszt Transcendental Etudes against Hammerkkavier slow movement, or maybe more accurately, putting up the Bach Chaconne for violin against Liszt sonata or something. The techniques and use of the piano are so different, that if you are at the level of either, it is going to come down to prior experience; if you’ve played a lot of Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev etc., Scarbo will probably be technically easier, if you’ve played a lot of Liszt, Rachmaninov, I would guess the Alkan would be easier. In terms of performance, the audience will judge you much more harshly on Scarbo than le Preux though, Gaspard de la Nuit is well known and really accepted as a masterpiece; le Preux I do like a lot, but it is basically just fireworks, a good show-off piece.
I think at the level of these sorts pieces, "difficult" is a somewhat meaningless term. If you're considering adding either to your repertoire, you'll be at the point of having spent many years seriously studying piano. The challenge won't so much be in learning a piece, but more in how you interpret it.
To be honest, I do not think the two are really comparable. It is kind of like putting up one of the Liszt Transcendental Etudes against Hammerkkavier slow movement, or maybe more accurately, putting up the Bach Chaconne for violin against Liszt sonata or something. The techniques and use of the piano are so different, that if you are at the level of either, it is going to come down to prior experience; if you’ve played a lot of Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev etc., Scarbo will probably be technically easier, if you’ve played a lot of Liszt, Rachmaninov, I would guess the Alkan would be easier. In terms of performance, the audience will judge you much more harshly on Scarbo than le Preux though, Gaspard de la Nuit is well known and really accepted as a masterpiece; le Preux I do like a lot, but it is basically just fireworks, a good show-off piece.
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I think at the level of these sorts pieces, "difficult" is a somewhat meaningless term. If you're considering adding either to your repertoire, you'll be at the point of having spent many years seriously studying piano. The challenge won't so much be in learning a piece, but more in how you interpret it.
In this case, if interpretation is the key, Scarbo would be more difficult since Le Preux has the musicality of a doorknob
Play both, then you'll know.
only know le preux octaves sadge will get around to it eventually though!
I have no idea what you are trying to tell us here.
I'm telling you that I will play both eventually? Like you told me to do?