I have heard different recordings of this stupidly difficult piece, and noticed an alternative route you can take on the amazing cadenza part in the first movement. If anyone should listen to a particular recording of the Rach 3 I strongly reccommend the Agerich live recording, it also got labelled as `the best ever Rach 3` you can see why when you listen to it. The disc also shows how hard the piece is because apparently she makes a lot of mistakes, not that I could tell. She plays the original run of the cadenza, not the ossia which I think is used in the film shine.

I have the sheet music and decided to learn the cadenza as a bit of fun, not expecting to pull it off yet, but its good practice. The ossia for this episode seems a lot harder than the original, I didn`t attempt it because the left hand notes are all over the place! Does anyone know which hand is meant to play the fast notes in the original cadenza, not the ossia? I think the left hand crosses over etc.. and just plays the quavers (4 in a bar), but the right hand darts about with the other more abundant quavers, I just dont know though. Does anyone know?