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The Fand Left-Hand Piano Album

Contemporary Pieces for the Left Hand alone

Various composers

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	…full of short yet charmingly accessible works.
	—Margaret Fingerhut, Pianist

	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		2½ mins
	10	Francis Pott	Is Art a Sin?

Recorded performance

Clodhopper! performed by the composer!
Tracks 1 & 3:
John Mitchell, Piano
Track 9:
Ennio Caironi, Piano

Catalogue code: FM132 • Published: 2004
Entry last updated: 20th December 2024