| Excellent new repertoire for imaginative grade 3–5 pupils. | ||
| —Piano |
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| Excellent new repertoire for imaginative grade 3–5 pupils. | ||
| —Piano |
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| These highly individual pieces serve up a tasty treat of originality for the left hand | ||
| —Alec Boulton, Music Teacher (August 2005) |
| It is a fascinating collection on its own merits… | ||
| —Liz Gibson, Piano Professional (January 2006) |
Published in Autumn 2004, this is a collection of ten compositions for piano in an album specifically devoted to the left hand.
Nine composers rose to the brief and produced ten completely individual original pieces of differing levels of difficulty, ranging from the radiant simplicity of Roger Eno’s art to a virtuosic number from Francis Pott, who jokingly suggests that a player might give his right arm to be able to play it! A further novelty within a typically novel Fand production is a transcription for left hand by Ronald Stevenson of his daughter Savourna Stevenson’s Lament for a Blind Harper.
All nine composers were thoroughly stimulated by the new discipline of writing for the left hand—many of them considering it like writing for “a completely different instrument” compared with the two-handed approach. The publisher feels that players will be equally stimulated; and, of course, two-handed players can always cheat in the end, if any piece does prove too taxing for the left hand alone!
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| Composer | Title | Forces | Total duration | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various | The Fand Left-Hand Piano Album Contemporary Pieces for the Left Hand alone | Piano (left hand) | ||||
| # | Composers | Work | Forces | Duration | ||
| 1 | John Mitchell | Clodhopper! | Piano (left hand) | 2 mins | ||
| 2 | Martin Read | An Imaginary Journey | ||||
| 3 | Frank Bayford | Theydon Bois a Prelude and Epilogue | 3 mins | |||
| 4 | Savourna Stevenson | Lament for a Blind Harper (transcribed by Ronald Stevenson) | ||||
| 5 | Roger Eno | Links | ||||
| 6 | Andrew Newton | River Fowey Lullaby | ||||
| 7 | Gary Higginson | The Forgotten Temple | ||||
| 8 | Dance of the Intervals | |||||
| 9 | Peter Thompson | Waltz | ||||
| 10 | Francis Pott | Is Art a Sin? | ||||
Clodhopper! performed by the composer!
John Mitchell, Piano
Catalogue code: FM132 • Published: 2004
Entry last updated: 25th August 2020