This animato piece is in the Habanera style. The telltale sign is in the tree semiquavers closing bar two. I read through this piece a few times and the rhythm is where the technical lessons reside. 
A case in point is the triplet and (semi)quaver combination. It sounds really latin-folky. It's the best part. Interesting to learn which note groups combine to form that rhythm.
This was the most difficult part, but it's wasn't too bad. The slanting, contiguous notes are difficult for my dyslexic mind. I tend to play high-to-low when the notes go low-to-high. And vice versa. I also get visually confused about which notes the accidentals truly modify: before or after, line or space...? Yeah. But it helps that this molto allargando is indicated here. It gives me time to get everything together, and delays don't sound like errors. 
The end is very interesting. Each hand does a wide chord, contracts to hit a note in the middle, and then widens again to hit another chord to the left/right. It's a bit like a see-saw. Notice that treble clef that sneaks in between two semiquavers on a beam! Very tricky. I caught it in time though. However, there's an even bigger trick of this sort that shows up in Ay-Ay-Ay. That messed me up bigtime once. Alan Chan's rendition
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