FM132

The Fand Left-Hand Piano Album

Contemporary Pieces for the Left Hand alone

Various composers

£11.45

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…an attractive collection of short pieces … Beautifully set and painstakingly edited…
—Philip Mead, International Piano (3 May 2005)
These highly individual pieces serve up a tasty treat of originality for the left hand
—Alec Boulton, Music Teacher (August 2005)

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!

Sample pages

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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 MitchellClodhopper!Piano (left hand)2 mins
2 Martin ReadAn Imaginary Journey
3 Frank BayfordTheydon Bois
a Prelude and Epilogue		3 mins
4 Savourna StevensonLament for a Blind Harper
(transcribed by Ronald Stevenson)
5 Roger EnoLinks
6 Andrew NewtonRiver Fowey Lullaby
7 Gary HigginsonThe Forgotten Temple
8 Dance of the Intervals
9 Peter ThompsonWaltz2½ mins
10 Francis PottIs 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