Questionable fingering
I have been studying the fingering of Streabbog’s Whirlwind inside issue 119 and wonder why 1-3-1-3 keeps appearing rather than, say, 1-2-3-4. I appreciate that 1-2-3 are the stronger fingers, but Chopin wrote his similar chromatic-scale étude for the top three fingers (3-4-5) whilst preventing 1-2 helping them by having them come in at every beat below the other fingers. In his Rhapsodie espagnole, Liszt even has scales with fingerings of 1-2-3-4-5, presumably for greater velocity and less change of position. I would think something similar is needed in Brahms’s Concerto No 2 in the semi-arpeggio figurations (first movement) and then later with the rapid scales in thirds in the last movement. Perhaps an item on such ‘unusual’ fingerings could be included?
John Greenaway, Earley