How many arms (or fingers) do you have?

[mercia]

Julius Drake seems to cope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZgDnhyHnQ

that final lefthand chord really is B-F#-B ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That's interesting. I thought Ritardando and Rallentando were the same (i.e. gradual slowing down), but that Ritenuto meant a sudden slowing down.

Edit: I've just checked in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, which confirms this.
The problem is that rit. is ambiguous.

You are absolutely right, of course (I feel a rite nutto!) - and it was the rit. abbreviation that led me into the careless error.

[EdgeleyRob]

As ever,thanks for the replies folks.

[Jonathan]

10ths do not present a problem to me as I can just about manage an 11th so the piano part seems fine. Perhaps for tidyness, it could be written onto 3 staves (the piano part is slightly similar in layout to the middle section of Liszt's Fantasy on themes from Reinzi (S439) - the section marked 'un poco piu mosso') but this is a personal opinion.

Well done!

[mercia]

I don't think I've ever come across "hold silently" as a marking before

[Pabmusic]

I don't think I've ever come across "hold silently" as a marking before

I understand it's in the Berg Piano Sonata, which Denis Browne gave the first British performance of. It's clearly an attempt to allow certain harmonics of the previous sf chord to be emphasised.

[kea]

May have been originated by Schumann in Carnaval—the chord's marked ppp, but is usually held silently, which I think was the composer's intention (ppp appears nowhere else in Schumann I'm pretty sure).