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Hi!

I am studying this nice work by Ravel.

For those of you who played it: it would be interesting to hear some fingering suggestion. Two places I am pondering are these. What did you do?

I've played this. Not as well as I'd like though

The first example seems pretty straightforward, just one note in LH, and 15 for the RH octave. Maybe 12 or 21 on the repeated note if that helps with speed. (It's such a short excerpt that I honestly don't remember what movement it comes from or what I did there.)

The second example is like a lot of stuff in the toccata. Throughout the toccata, my teacher had me figure out how to group the little chords together into hand positions, so that the hand would stay in the same place as long as possible, then quickly move to a new position. For example, for the RH starting on the first chord C#-A#, fingering could be 21, then 35 without moving the hand. Then move the hand to the same position one octave up and go 21 21 35. Then move to the same position one octave up and go 21 35 35. That strategy helped a lot.

It is also the toccata. This place is a bit awkward, so I thought to redistribute the notes between the hands.



Thanks.
I think I will do something like that.
Moving position for each two-note chord is hard, however, I think it looks nice. I think this pianist does exactly that:
https://youtu.be/1Mgw8pV4iPM?t=22m47s

After practicing this Toccata for a while...
I found that I like to use 24 in R.H. for all the thirds, so moving position for each one. It is really the most comfortable.

I'd divide hands as marked and play each of the marked groups with 15 or 51 respectively.



Good luck!