Please....anyone can play the F minor Etude if you can handle the Preludes.
For my money the two greatest recordings out of the complete Chopin Etudes are the old one of Abbey Simon, (so clean its frightening.), and one from about 15 years ago by Andrei Gavrilov, (full of Russian fire and passion.)
Two completely different approaches to the music, yet both still valid.
Oh, and Phillipe Entremont’s recording of op. 10 #12 in C minor, (”Revolutionary”), is beautiful beyond words.
I love Phillipe Entremont!
I've got a ton of his recordings on vinyl from when I was a disc jockey back in the early '80s.
I forget the name of that thing we played those old vinyl cd's on...