What DJ discovered is that there is a rich history of piano music written exclusively for the left hand, thanks to the work of wounded returned servicemen from the First and Second World Wars.

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 … ...

2 Britten: Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra Another Wittgenstein piece, Britten secured this commission after meeting the pianist at his Manhattan apartment in 1940.

We hear some Russian music for piano left-hand, in concert with Gary Graffman. Due to stress problems with his right hand, Graffman plays only with his left. He gave a concert not long ago at the ...

About five years ago, it would not have occurred to pianist Gary Graffman to play Erich Wolfgang Korngold`s ”Concerto for Piano, Left Hand and Orchestra.”Now, though, if Graffman is to play at ...

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 ...

Great for: Inversions, right hand fifths. This romantic piano ballad is easy to play thanks to its slow, steady pace, repetition of melody and small range of hand movement - the chords can be voiced ...

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. c. 8.20pm Interval: The writer and musicologist Daniel Grimley joins Martin Handley, live at the Royal Albert Hall, ...

His most enduring commission was Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Wittgenstein was born into a musical family. In his youth, visitors to the family home included Brahms, ...

In this performance in London's Steinway Hall, he plays Polish-American virtuoso Leopold Godowsky’s arrangement of Chopin’s Etude for left hand only. It’s a brutal test for the span of one hand, but ...

Equally comfortable laying down a fiendishly nimble piano solo as he is slicing samples in Ableton Live, Kiefer draws from various corners of Black American music - jazz, hip-hop, R&B, funk and ...

His most enduring commission is Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. The piece regularly appears on concert programs by the world's top pianists and even featured in the TV series M*A ...