Nicholas McCarthy overcame rejection to make a professional career playing the surprisingly vast repertoire for left-hand ...

The man behind Ravel's piano concerto for left hand, Paul Wittgenstein, is really the man to thank when it comes to commissioning music for the left hand. He approached Richard Strauss, Prokofiev, and ...

Up to that point Ravel had not written a piano concerto, although he had thought of getting one ready for a concert tour of America. Wittgenstein spurred him to get down to it and, from spring of 1930 ...

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4; Britten: Diversions for Piano and Orchestra (Leon Fleisher, piano; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Sony … ...

Today we learn the left-hand pattern of Oscar Peterson's Boogie etude in F from. Aimee Nolte Music. Oscar Peterson Left Hand Blues Piano Pattern. Posted: December 19, 2024 | Last updated: March 6 ...

While there is some piano music composed for the right hand alone, the catalogue is much smaller, with no-one appearing to have advocated as strongly for the repertoire as Wittgenstein.

Lang Lang asked a young protege to literally lend him a hand at the New York concert. Maxim Lando, a 14-year-old US pianist, played all the left hand notes for him.

Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Jeremy Sams chooses his favourite recording of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. 44 mins; Record Review Podcast. Stravinsky's The Firebird.